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They've got government jobs and they get to keep their guns, so why should Hizbollah change its ways? In Newsweek, Michael Young considers whether politics will lead to a kinder, gentler Party of God.
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You might as well ask why the Afghani warlords or Iraqi militias, who also have received government jobs while keeping their guns, would change their ways.