by Michael J. Totten
The Arab bar for military victory is set so low that anything short of annihilation is considered a “win” by fools who start doomed-to-fail wars. There is no such thing as a partial defeat, a standstill, or even a Pyrrhic victory.
So Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran are gearing up to go another “victorious” round.
Hizbullah, Iran, and Syria are working feverishly to rearm Hizbullah ahead of the next round. A senior officer of the Revolutionary Guard in Tehran said that huge quantities of weapons including weapons of various sources reached Damascus during the last three weeks, and are waiting to be transferred to Lebanon.
According to London based Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awast, the Revolutionary Guard formed an emergency committee on logistics in Damascus, which will be responsible for supplying Hizbullah’s military needs.
A senior figure in the Iranian foreign ministry also said his country was preparing to provide aid for areas destroyed in Lebanon, despite claims by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other sources, according to which Hizbullah is not receiving money from Iran for recovery efforts in Lebanon.
Abu Kais, himself a Shia from South Lebanon, speaks for most Lebanese when he says Hezbollah lost the war and that Iran’s Shia farm must be shut down, and its residents set free.