Lebanon Must Choose America or Iran

Peloni:  Ziad K Abdelnour, a political activist and Founder and President of the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon calls for America to use force to eliminate the control which exists in Lebanon.  He asserts that America has the means to coordinate a meaningful and effective threat against Hezbollah with its influence on with Israel, Syria, and the Lebanese Armed Forces.  While he ignores the fact that Syria and Israel are at loggerheads as to how to deal with the intractable Jihadi attacks being conducted by Syria against its minorities, he also ignores the reality of the plurality, if not outright majority, Shia component in the Lebanese army.  Instead, he asserts that the failure to control Hezbollah lies with the power elites in Lebanon, further ignoring the long history of support for keeping Lebanon in power which has heretofore kept Hezbollah in power extending from the American state dept, even under Trump’s first administration.    The Shia community in Lebanon will resist the elimination of Hezbollah’s control in Lebanon, which begs the question of how Lebanon might eliminate the control of this terror proxy.  Is this the what lies next on Trump’s agenda for what he has described as his broader peace deal?  If so, it would require boots on the ground, and those boots should not be anticipated to include a large part of the LAF.  The only substitute for the Lebanese forces in freeing themselves from what is clearly be Iranian proxy group in Lebanon lies with Turkey, and this is a worrisome potential to consider.

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