The decades-long presence of Hezbollah, a terrorist organization that is much better armed than the Lebanese Army and does not answer to the Lebanese government — and the discovery that Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon reportedly carries a Hezbollah pager — makes a sad mockery of the notion of Lebanese sovereignty.

Lebanese Americans in Michigan are in mourning this week after a series of attacks over two days in Lebanon involving pagers and walkie talkies led to 32 deaths and more than 3,000 injuries, one of the deadliest attacks in the Middle Eastern nation over the past year.