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Hezbollah as a Political Metaphor In The US

June 1, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

The “Hezbollah wing” of the Republican party is the one that “gets ahold of the steering wheel and drives right off the cliff”. That was a reference to Hezbollah’s suicidal past (which is how most Americans think of Hezbollah), but the steering wheel definition works surprisingly well in the Lebanese context too..