This debate has been taking place on "an unsealed room," but I thought I'd post something here. Bad Vilbel, and a few others, including me, were debating what the fate of Hezbollah will be, or should be. (Perhaps two completely different states of being or not being.) Hezbollah has a political branch, but unfortunately its armed branch seems to be controlling the discourse. How does one disarm Hezbollah? Can Lebanon approach this like the British with the IRA--who also had no other vision than British out of Ireland, and Northern Island being reunited with Ireland proper. Sinn Fein is the political branch of the IRA, and it is and has been negotiating a disarming of the military branch of the iRA. Of course not all arms will be turned over--the caches will dot Derry and Ulster--but at least the politcal wing has become more powerful and relevant than the armed wing. Is this possible in Lebanon, or is the comparison between Lebanon and Northern Ireland a bad analogy?