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Hezbollah and allies drive Lebanon toward state failure

By Tom Rogan
Published July 12, 2021 8:08pm ET
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Hezbollah and allies drive Lebanon toward state failure
A Lebanese boy stands on his balcony next of a large portrait of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah at the site of a car bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. An explosion ripped through a Shiite neighborhood in south Beirut on Tuesday targeting supporters of Lebanon's militant Shiite Hezbollah group. Hezbollah has sent its gunmen to fight alongside Assad's forces, providing a significant boost to the Syrian government's overstretched military. Hezbollah's critics say the group's armed intervention in Syria has stoked sectarian tensions at home and needlessly dragged Lebanon into the maelstrom next door. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) | Hussein Malla

Lebanese Hezbollah and its allies are driving the Lebanese state toward complete failure.

The meltdown has been a long time coming, but it was exacerbated by the July 2020 Beirut port explosion. Encapsulating the government’s endemic mismanagement, corruption, and lack of interest in serving its people, that explosion offers a metaphor for the coming political explosion. The ingredients for the crisis are clear.

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