Robert Malley: “It is clear. 1701 are words on paper; they are not going to be translated on the ground, and they are not going to be…”

How do we get to this broader problem of the Middle East? We are going to have to do what we are doing to try to push back, but we have to get engaged in diplomacy.

instability, chaos, that is what benefits Iran.

Lebanon is too weak, too vulnerable, too susceptible to destabilization to afford grand aspirations.

What happens in Lebanon will quickly spread to Syria, and vice versa.