Smells Like "Divine Victory"

Here's a story from Beirut's Daily Star that I missed while away, summed on Ynetnews.com. A Hizballah sympathizer with an eye for merchandizing is selling "Resistance Perfume" -- a musky scent with a political message and a complimentary photograph of Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah. While the Daily Star quotes a Hizballah official as saying that the Islamic Resistance in fact has no trademark rights over the actual word "Resistance," I can't help thinking that Lebanon's only armed militia could have stopped the scent if it had wanted.

So may I suggest an appropriate US response? Have Calvin Klein put out a number in line with the latest in Pentagon groupthink. "Counterinsurgency: For the Woman Who Wants to Stay on Top."

--By Andrew Lee Butters/Beirut