How Legitimate is Hezbollah?

[bryant69]

Poll question: How Legitimate is Hezbollah?

On a scale of 1 to 5 - how legitimate is it? I mean on one end (5) you might have such organizations as the Red Cross or the World Health organization or Amnesty International - organizations which a very small amount of people might see as illegitimate.

On the other end (1) you might have such organizations as the Mafia or Drug Cartels or Al Qaeda - organizations that are defined by their illegitimacy, and organizations which the civilized world is trying to destroy, in so far as it is possible (obviously the question of appropriate methods doesn't enter into this discussion - one can believe that destroying Al Qaeda is a laudable goal without supporting the military adventures our nation has undertaken).

To sum up - legitimacy might be that mythical right to exist? The more legitimate an organization is, the more it has a right to exist; contrariwise, the less legitimate an organization is, the less it has a right to exist.

One other niggling point - I am assuming we are seeing Hezbollah as one organization, with different branches, not separate organizations. But I recognize that some of you might not see it that way.

Bryant
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