Hezbo Holds Victory Rally Amid the Rubble

Climbing over the pulverized remains of his villages, Hezbo leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah held a "divine victory" rally today south of Beirut. It's a good thing the "devine" was on his side, or they would have really gotten their butts kicked.

Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday rejected international calls to disarm his Lebanese guerrillas and told a huge "victory" rally they still had more than 20,000 rockets after a month of war with Israel.

Speaking to a sea of followers at a "divine victory" rally in south Beirut, Nasrallah said Hizbollah had emerged stronger from a conflict in which Israel declared it had destroyed most of the Shi'ite Muslim group's arsenal.

"The resistance today, pay attention...has more than 20,000 rockets," he told hundreds of thousands of cheering supporters in his first public appearance since the war broke out in July.

"(It) has recovered all its organizational and military capabilities...it is stronger than it was before July 12."

Unfortunately, Hezbo probably is somewhat stronger than it was thanks to the ineffective Israeli response. Rather than clean the county up and remove all of these guys, the war left them in place with no effective management from the Lebanese government or UN peacekeepers. Hezbo is a boil which will once again have to be lanced.