Rebuilding: Right now, Hezbollah is winning the next war

The New York Times writes on how the Hezbollah leads the reconstruction work in Lebanon. With heavy financial backing from Iran, they offer a years rent and other substantial aids to those whose houses were destroyed.

One of the arguments from the Israel Defence Forces have been that the civilian houses destroyed were used as weapon caches. They just lost a rhetorical battle there, as rebuilding a house is always a more positive thing than destroying it.

This piece of news brings to my mind the faithful days just after Saddam Hussein's regime had crumbled. The pictures of American soldiers standing guard outside important ministries, while dirt-poor people looted the rest. Watch Hezbollah and see a guerilla army that knows the importance of public support and the fact that it grows from small things such as an intact house or a hot meal of falaffals, rather than beautiful ideals for the future to come.