How able will the Lebanese government be to control Hezbollah?
Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese government. And the very important decisions about Lebanon, such as the deployment of the Lebanese army in the south and the approval of resolution 1701, were made unanimously. So, I would put the question differently. Lebanon is a democratic country where things are achieved through discussion and consensus. We are confident that Hezbollah will want Lebanon to become a stable, peaceful country. An American journalist in The New Yorker – Jon Lee Anderson – said that the United States has waged wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq, but then given little for their reconstruction. At the moment, what are Lebanese feeling toward the US? To what extent does the image of Israel and the image of the US overlap? The feelings toward the US are mixed. There is both this looking to the US for political and economic support, and this strong feeling that the US, given its very close relationship with Israel, is not giving Lebanon the necessary support. But let us not co
