We’re not talking about Scott Pelley here.

The strange little newsman and his apparent confusion over what it means to be “embedded” during wartime. Pelley may genuinely believe he was personally fighting battles in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine because he stood near the people actually doing the fighting. But no one else believes that. Including the enemy.

No, what we’re talking about here is a very different kind of embedded.

Engrained might actually be the better word.

Rooted. Welded. Something buried so deeply inside the soul of a movement that even the destruction of entire nations doesn’t dislodge it.

That’s the problem with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah.

And until the West fully understands that reality, we’re going to keep pretending negotiations are failing because of misunderstandings, poor timing, bad wording, or diplomatic complexity.

They’re failing because one side wants peace and the other side worships martyrdom.

That’s the actual conflict.

Watch what keeps happening.

Civilian governments in both Lebanon and Iran repeatedly signal exhaustion. Ordinary citizens in Tehran and Beirut want normalcy. They want electricity that stays on. Food prices that don’t require a second mortgage. Streets where children can walk safely. They want jobs, stability, weddings, grandchildren, restaurants, music, and sleep.

In other words, they want the same things normal people everywhere want.

But the IRGC and Hezbollah are not normal governing bodies. They are ideological militias wrapped around weakened states like parasitic vines. And they possess the guns.

That’s the critical detail Western analysts constantly sanitize because it sounds impolite to say........

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