Pure Stupidity? Something Else?

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>  >...Hezbollah, which is a perfectly
>>  >legitimate civilian institution...
>>  >
>>  >Seth
>>
>>
>>  Well that's certainly a new one...
>.
>Is it? Hezbollah runs candidates for offices. It operates social welfare
>agencies. Its military wing is virtually disbanded. It has a few guerrillas
>fighting against Israeli troops on a tiny patch of Lebonese land that Israel
>still illegally occupies.
>
>How is Hezbollah any less legitimate than the Israeli Likud, an outgrowth of
>the openly terrorst Lehi paramilitaries of the 30's and 40's?
>
>Seth

I wouldn't call either Hezbollah or the people who launched "Peace 
for Galilee" a "legitimate civilian institution"