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Yes, Europe, Hizbullah Is a Terror Group
(Boston Globe) Jeff Jacoby - Winston Churchill understood about Europe's appeasers that "Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last." They thought the best way to confront the threat posed by Nazi Germany was to avoid confronting it. "All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured." Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said of Hizbullah in 2008, "they make al-Qaeda look like a minor-league team." In 2002, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage argued that "Hizbullah may be the A-team of terrorists and maybe al-Qaeda is actually the B-team." So what can explain the European reluctance to blacklist Hizbullah as a terrorist organization and shut down its fundraising and logistical operations? "There's the overall fear if we're too noisy about this, Hizbullah might strike again," said Sylke Tempel, the editor-in-chief of the German foreign affairs magazine Internationale Politik.