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Same clarity, same concern — and this time, perhaps, a colder anger. The American envoy didn’t come for coffee. He came to assess the situation. And to restate the facts as they are: Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon toward civil war, and the world may well decide to walk away. This isn’t a threat — it’s a possible outcome of the current deadlock.

In his latest speech, the secretary-general of the Shiite militia was true to form: arrogant, detached and dangerous. Once again, he invoked a so-called “resistance against Israel,” despite having lost all military legitimacy and strategic credibility. Even his own allies are growing visibly uneasy.

Even bolder this time, he’s now calling for a “national defense strategy.” As if it were normal for a militia to impose its weapons on the state, to claim a role in military decision-making — all while remaining loyal to a foreign power. As if the Lebanese Army didn’t exist. As if the country hadn’t already been devastated by this never-ending charade — forced on a people who were never, not even for a moment, deceived.

This time, American patience is wearing thin. What’s needed now is action — a clear timetable for disarmament.

And if that doesn’t happen? Then the United States may well step back. Walk away. Leave Lebanon in the hands of those who have already hollowed it out, strangled its economy, looted its institutions and crushed its freedoms. It would be a devastating outcome — but a painfully logical one: how do you help a country that refuses to help itself?

Let’s be clear: Hezbollah now bears the historic responsibility for driving a nation to the brink — a nation that never asked for any of this. A country that only wanted to live. To work. To educate its children. To find a way forward. But instead, it was used. Sacrificed. Betrayed.

Every armed militiaman, every call to war, is a stab in Lebanon’s back. And every official silence, every shameful compromise and every political ambiguity stands complicit in that betrayal.

Tom Barrack came to deliver a harsh truth: Lebanon is exposed — not just a figure of speech anymore, but a full-blown state of emergency.