Did Obama Ignore Hezbollah to Secure the Iran Deal?
Old ideological foes are lining up on opposite sides of the emerging debate.
Former Obama CIA director and homeland security advisor John Brennan also compared Hezbollah to the Irish Republican Army.
Ottolenghi mounts his pushback, and rejects the proposition there are sectors of Hezbollah the U.S. can reasonably work with: “Look, there were gradations within the Nazi Party,” but at the end of the day, with Hezbollah, we’re looking at “shades of grey.” And he notes -- “by the way” -- the jury is still out on the IRA, as well.
NOTE: This piece has been updated since first being published.
Curt Mills is a foreign-affairs reporter at the National Interest. Follow him on Twitter: @CurtMills.
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