Pure Stupidity? Something Else?

[Max Sawicky]

. . . Likud is a legitimate party, even though it grew out of
terrorist paramilitaries. Therefore, US hostility to Hezbollah can't
logically stem from its own roots as a paramilitary organization. It must be
something else.    Seth

I'd be happy to participate in boiling the Likud in a vat of
matzoh ball soup, but the solution to this contradition is
simple.  Likud has state power; Hezb doesn't, and isn't any
great shakes in any case.  So one need not bother with
recognizing the latter, while one cannot avoid dealing
with the former.  If the Likud drove airplanes into U.S.
skyscrapers, natch state-to-state relations would
undergo a chill.  Sinking the Liberty, or blowing up
the Cole, OTOH, were slights that could be tolerated.

mbs