Jay Currie

The importance of what is happening now in the Middle East is being seen as tactical by the left and potentially strategic by the right. Here’s Wretchard at the Belmont Club:

A focused attack on extremism will have been supplanted by an uncontrolled clash between peoples, religions and cultures. But we are not there yet. There’s still a chance, and the rulers of the Middle East are hoping that this thing can be pulled back from the brink and the fires focused on Hezbollah, then possibly on a narrow coterie in Teheran. But if that way forward fails, a large part of the blame will historically fall on those who forced the West to fight the war against terrorists with politically correct half-measures. Who created the dinky rules which made it impossible to excise abominations like Hezbollah and Hamas. Or even to question them. And perhaps made it even necessary to fund them. Their good intentions or fecklessness have made the terrible alternative that stares us in the face likely. Let us only hope that they have not made it inevitable.
the belmont club

Taking down Hezbollah is going to be a grind. It may well involve Syria and it almost certainly is going to piss off the Iranian ayatollahs and their pawns. But it is part of the revolution occuring in the Middle East where the possiblilty of defeating terror grows every day.

The key understanding is that Syria and, most importantly, Iran are state sponsors of terrorism and the quicker their proxies are destroyed the better the chances of a turning away from fantasy and violence throughout the Middle East.