Sorry for not posting for a while; circumstances beyond my control have limited my access to WordPress. Anyway, I’m sure you’ll have seen the recent article about four western journalists – all pretty well established – going paintballing with Hezbollah in south Beirut. If not, I won’t spoil it. As you’d expect from the authors, it is at least entertaining…but not terribly illuminating. I know exactly why it was pitched – it was accepted by VICE editors after all. Outlets still have a perspective from which they approach Hezbollah; that the party is tough and mysterious and highly organized, and predominantly hostile to Americans. It is all of those things, of course, but it’s also a highly functioning social outfit, an organization with links established in…