US doesn't object to efforts to engage Hezbollah..

In the LATimes, here

"...Senior U.S. officials have privately mocked and publicly rejected the British decision. "Our position on Hezbollah remains unchanged," Jeffrey Feltman, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of State for Near East affairs, told lawmakers last month. "We see no distinction between the leadership and funding of the group's terrorist, military, political and social wings."Although the Obama administration rejects the British approach, Rammell said initial U.S. alarm has given way to curiosity and that there is "no antagonism" between the two allies over the issue. Rammell's areas of responsibility include the Middle East, Afghanistan and North America.
France, with its deep historical and cultural ties to Lebanon, has long maintained relations with Hezbollah. Rammell said the British attempt to engage Hezbollah would proceed incrementally, in an attempt at "testing the waters."