"Or could it be, mirabile dictu, that there is surprising consensus in much of the world, even extending to portions of the MSM, that the Hezbollah thugs are a threat to most everyone this side of Tehran and Damascus?"
I wouldn't be so optimistic.
There's stil Hamas, Al Quaida, Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Fatah, the Wahhabists, etc., etc.
The problem is Islam.
The dispute between these collections of nutjobs is the techinique to be used to strangle us, not in the ultimate outcome.