Despite receiving windfalls in funding from the U.S. and Western nations over the last two decades, the Lebanese Army is too weak to stand up to the terrorist group Hezbollah, further straining an already conflict-ridden country, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Hezbollah has been one of the main actors stirring up chaos in the Middle East over the last year, launching routine attacks against Israel and raising threats against U.S. forces in the region. Lebanon’s armed forces are separate from Hezbollah and have failed to contain the terrorist group, even after receiving more than $3 billion in funding from the U.S. and West since 2006, according to The Wall Street Journal. (RELATED: Trump Reportedly Told Netanyahu Israel Needs To Finish Gaza War By Time He Takes Office)
“It is one of the weakest armies in the Middle East,” Amal Saad, a political analyst at Cardiff…
