The Belmont Club refers to a Michael Totten article reporting on Lebanon. Michael sees war breaking out again in this region. And, as stated by Wretchard at the Belmont Club:
"Most people knew this would happen, including some I think, who called most loudly for a ceasefire. Not because they were malevolent but because of a deep-seated human desire to avoid a present unpleasantness even if it means worse in the future."
From Michael Totten:
Most Lebanese fear and loathe Hezbollah precisely because they fear Nasrallah points his guns at Beirut and Tel Aviv at the same time. NasrallahÂ’s current belligerence proves theyÂ’re correct.
The Israelis may have temporarily depleted HezbollahÂ’s arsenal stock, but it makes little difference. Syria and Iran are arming them all over again.
Charles Malik says sectarian clashes are a routine occurrence and are rarely mentioned in local or international media.
ThereÂ’s a case to be made that Lebanon is at war even now, not only with Israel and Syria but with itself. As Bart Hall put it at Winds of Change: “"Peace is the absence of threat not the absence of conflict."”
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