Jimmy Carter On Steroids

Seeing Andy McCarthy with his lower jaw on the floor about this is a lot of why I struggle so mightily to hold on to my cynicism, because if I let myself indulge in incredulity even once at the lengths of lunacy to which Barack Neville Chamberlain Obama is willing to go, I'll never close my mouth again.

And, you know, probably never sleep again, either:

The Obama administration is looking for ways to build up “moderate elements” within the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla movement and to diminish the influence of hard-liners, a top White House official said on Tuesday.

John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, met with Lebanese leaders during a recent visit.

“Hezbollah is a very interesting organization,” Brennan told a Washington conference, citing its evolution from “purely a terrorist organization” to a militia to an organization that now has members within the parliament and the cabinet.

“There is [sic] certainly the elements of Hezbollah that are truly a concern to us what they’re doing. And what we need to do is to find ways to diminish their influence within the organization and to try to build up the more moderate elements,” Brennan said.

He did not spell out how Washington hoped to promote “moderate elements” given that the organization is branded a “foreign terrorist organization” by the United States.

Um, dude, the Taliban had political elements to it, which is what happens when a faction takes over its country.  Oh, wait, bad example.  How about Nazi Germany?  Any objections?  Good.  The Nazi Party had political elements to it.  So did the Bolsheviks.  And the Chinese Communists.  That didn't mitigate in the slightest the fact that these were bestial, demonic, mass-murdering regimes that deserved to be eradicated.

The Hezbos are no different.  And they're a wholly owned subsidiary of the Iranian mullahgarchy, remember?  Their reason for existence is to serve as a puppet regime controlling Lebanon for Tehran, providing the mullahs a forward base bordering on the nation to its immediate south, which Adolph Ahmadinejad, speaking for those very same mullahs, has vowed to "wipe off the map".  Applying fantasist parlor Kremlinologizing to a single-minded Islamic theocratic war gang is sheer ivory tower anthropomorphic five-knuckle-shuffling at its vile worst.

It's a pity the CIA isn't still an actual intelligence agency, as I would have no problem whatsoever with infiltrating Hezbollah with the goal of neutralizing it from the inside.  Sending diplofanatics to mine the Hezbos for "moderation" sounds like a "We make/you take" hostage delivery service.