The writer is a fool, and the premise of his argument -- that we granted Hamas and Hizbollah "Moral legitimacy" -- makes a mockery of the term "moral". The organizations may have been granted political legitimacy within their own political boundaries but the United States never once granted them anything like "moral legitimacy". The U.S. State Department continues to label them terrorist organizations.
I agree with what he says about freedom but the impression I'm getting from the article is that he thinks we would all be better off if we abandoned the effort to get rid of the dictators and passed the problem to the next generation when it will be even bigger than it is now.