A Third Lebanon War Could Be Much Worse Than The Second -- A Commentary

Israel - Hezbollah War 2006. Photo from The L.A. Times

From Commentary Magazine:

Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport, and the Dimona nuclear-power plant.

I dismissed his claim as a wild boast last week, but Israeli army commander Major General Gabi Ashkenazi confirmed it this week. So while we've all been worried about Iran's nuclear-weapons program, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been quietly arming his chief terrorist proxy with more advanced conventional weapons.

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My Comment: Michael Totten has become one the best writers on the Middle East in the past few years. This post on Lebanon does not disappoint.