Hezbollah and Legitimacy

John Robb from Global Guerrillas has a great post on Hezbollah and the "legitimacy" question. He argues that there is an inversion of legitimacy taking place with Hezbollah, which gains legitimacy at the expense of the state “by providing sys-admin like functionality.” I agree with him and I believe that the frightening thing is that much of the world, especially the United States haven't learn to deal with non-state actors even though they are soon becoming the biggest threat to the stability of our world.