Andrew Sullivan gets goose bumps from the bloviating Frenchman himself, Bernard Henri-Levy, who begins his account of arriving in Israel with (what else?) a remembrance of the Spanish Civil War.  Because you see we are again in a war with fascism or Islam or Islamic fascism, or international fascistic Islamism…Sullivan for his part uses it as another club with which to beat any and all politically active religious people.  Because, you see, it’s just a hop skip and a jump from political engagement to Nasrallah and the boys.  If you believe that, analogies to the 1930s and BHL’s babbling will also seem like statements of impeccable genius to you.

It is true that “this is a religious war” for Hizbullah, because, well, every war is a religious war for the “Party of God.”  No kidding.  That does not mean that anyone in Israel or here should feel obliged to apply the same ruthless, maximalist logic to waging war against them–since that is supposed to be what makes them evil, n’est pas?