As a result, Hezbollah is no longer the widely popular movement that it once was across the Arab and Muslim worlds, but it remains a highly effective and heavily armed force. And, in politics, as Machiavelli pointed out long ago, it is more important to be feared than loved.
因此，在阿拉伯以及穆斯林世界，真主党并不像过去一样广泛受到人们的欢迎，但是它仍然是一支效率极高的武装势力。在政治上，正如多年之前马基雅维利提出的那样，受到敬畏比受到爱戴更重要。