Motus Mentis

The militant Islamist group Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, is also one of the world’s biggest organized-crime cartels, dealing in drugs, weapons, and money-laundering on a global scale to support its jihad. During the Obama administration, the DEA mounted a massive investigation, and was prepared to mount an enormous legal assault on the syndicate — which was deeply engaged in criminal activities in the U.S. — but the initiative was stymied by the White House, because the president feared that it would interfere with the deal with Iran that he and John Kerry were trying to put together.

The investigation was called Operation Cassandra. (How apt that name would become was, I’m sure, not apparent at the time.) I remember Andrew McCarthy talking about it on the John Batchelor show some time ago — I’ll try to find a recording — but I’ve just run across a detailed report of this fiasco at Politico.

As Edmund Burke said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” (Or, in this case, to be prevented from doing anything.) Read the sad story here.