A couple more factors that
impact are that they have achieved a certain amount
of success, with Hezbollah recognized as an
actual political player in Palestine, but, more importantly, there is the factor
of the extremist group ISIS essentially being at
war with Shia Islam, with the goal
of stomping them out like everyone else.
So it will, in essence, be a
war of words between Obama and his GOP challengers over an issue that
actual policy has very little immediate bearing on — but it has already had real - world
impacts.