Is America Throwing Good Money After Bad in Lebanon?

America allocates $72 million for the Lebanese army, which it has long considered the one body that could somehow glue together Beirut’s increasingly dysfunctional state institutions, over which Iran has strong influence via Hezbollah.

AP/Hussein Malla, file
The scene of an explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, on August 5, 2020. AP/Hussein Malla, file

With Lebanon’s state institutions crumbling and Hezbollah increasing its hold over them, should America deepen its involvement in a country dominated by one of Tehran’s clients, or should it stop throwing good money after bad?

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