Firedoglake Cheers Hezbollah's Military Power

I've recently blogged a bit about Jewish hatred on the radical left, but this post from Firedoglake ranks at the heights of Israeli-bashing anti-Semitism: "The Hidden Army: Hezbollah Teaches the World How to Fight":

Hezbollah has created the new model army, and a new model state. Call it the Hidden Army. An army that blends in with the population, that moves only when it cannot be seen, that sets up in the expectation of surveillance. An army that knows all the high tech games, and spent the time to figure out how to nullify them. It sounds like a guerilla army, and it is, but it's also much more: it's an army capable of engaging in strategic warfare and an army capable of engaging in full on attrition defense warfare against Israeli main battle forces. It's hard to overstate how impressive this is.

It's an unrecognized State with a hidden army. Oh, the UN says there's a Lebanese government with authority over Hezbollah. But everyone knows that the real government in southern Lebanon is Hezbollah. They pick up the garbage, they give out the pensions, heck, they have their own phone network. Crazy. When the Lebanese "government" picks a fight with Hezbollah, Hezbollah wins.

We are going to see many more of these unrecognized governments, with their hidden armies. Why? Because they work, and they work very well, both at providing government services to a population, and at frustrating much larger, more powerful and expensive conventional armies. As official governments fail, less recognized ones will pick up the pieces. And they will look to Lebanon to see how to do it, survive, and even win.

And whose more powerful and conventional armies might be under consideration here?

The American and the Israeli, of course.

It would be one thing if we were reading about improvements in the operational tactics or strategic doctrines of our enemies, in an effort to better prepare against imminent threats (in some obscure journal of strategic studies, perhaps), but Firedoglake - a "mainstream" leftist blog - applauds Hezbollah as a combined welfare-delivery and anti-Western terrorist fighting organization. This essay is cheering for the enemies of the West.

Blogs like Firedoglake are at the forefront of left-wing backing of antiwar candidates like Darcy Burner and Barack Obama.

Read the post in full, and think about how American foreign policy may indeed change after the election. This is change we can believe in?