[Asclepius]

Despite Iranian Hezbollah's insistence that it takes orders from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, government ministries say Hizbollah does not implement official policy.

I wish we had such a resource, a paramilitary army of misfits and fanatics willing to terrorize our enemies, but an army that we can deny that we arm, fund, or control.

[Firefox1]

I wish we had such a resource, a paramilitary army of misfits and fanatics willing to terrorize our enemies, but an army that we can deny that we arm, fund, or control.

I totally agree. This gives Iran and Syria plausible deniability. Plus it gives the libs as well as Russia and China a fig leaf to hide behind when as they advocate diplomacy with Iran and the like. At least North Korea doesn't have a proxy army......yet.

[Cobra64]

I wish we had such a resource, a paramilitary army of misfits and fanatics willing to terrorize our enemies, but an army that we can deny that we arm, fund, or control.

Aren't there a lot of those guys (mercenaries) living in Idaho?