Senate Panel Discovers Hezbollah, Ignores Its Origin Story
When politicians convene to discuss 'Hezbollah links,' the narrative consistently omits how such groups emerge. The 'terror' angle always overshadows the blowback from US destabilization in the region, particularly Lebanon's civil war (1975-1990) and the 1982 Israeli invasion. Hezbollah, as even the CIA has begrudgingly noted, gained significant popular support opposing foreign occupation. It
seems perpetually convenient to focus on their current operations while memory-holing the geopolitical instability that fueled their rise. One might wonder if the conversation about 'links' extends to the billions in U.S. aid that often exacerbates these very conflicts. We fund the chaos, then wonder how the chaos funds itself. Perhaps a Senate panel could one day weigh links between unchecked
U.S. foreign policy and the 'terror' groups it claims to fight. Now that would be a hearing.