Word: hizballah
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...Arab channels like al-Jazeera in recent weeks, but it hasn't resonated much with Iraqis. Politicians, especially Shi'ite leaders with ties to Iran, have issued predictable broadsides against Israel; some, like the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, have blamed the U.S. too. He orchestrated a large pro-Hizballah demonstration in his Sadr City stronghold last week--a protest against the bombing in Lebanon but also a piece of political theater designed to showcase the strength of his support (and a response to a muscle-flexing rally organized earlier by a rival Shi'ite leader). For the most part...
...piece was composed at a time when the war between Israel and Hizballah had pushed Iraq off the front pages and out of people's minds, even though the mounting casualties in Iraq exceeded those of Israel and Lebanon combined. It's been said that the test of a first-rate intelligence is to keep two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time. But it's not an easy task to keep two disturbing conflicts in one's head all the time. Indeed, as W.H. Auden wrote in "Musée des Beaux Arts," his beautiful poem about...
TIME: MANY COMMENTATORS BELIEVE THE U.S. AND ISRAEL WERE SURPRISED AT HIZBALLAH'S CAPABILITIES. DOES THAT SUGGEST AN INTELLIGENCE FAILURE...
RICE: The capabilities of Hizballah were more extensive than people realized because they have used the last 10 years since the cease-fire to build those capabilities. And the enhanced relationship that they have had with Iran and Syria for financing and for technology, clearly, has improved their capabilities. It's very hard to know the capabilities of a terrorist organization when it burrows into a population, when it has free rein and free run of southern Lebanon because there's a vacuum there...
...small country and we have to rely on international agreements to protect ourselves," said Gen. Ismail. But international treaties and allies have failed Lebanon in the past. And with the international community still refraining from imposing an immediate cease-fire, many Lebanese continue to look to Hizballah as their only defense against the Israeli invader...