Comments on: Political Explosion in Lebanon…

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:27:19 +0000

I still think we will bomb Syria within the next week. The Bush administration is fed up with that countryís shenanigans. At the very least, the Syrian Baathists must essentially get on their knees and promise never again to misbehave. Syria will probably be the next domino to fall.

Will the elite classes be able to slime the President if we take military action against Syria? Nope, Bush only need to provide a good explanation. He has the power, not the silly elitists.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:50:51 +0000

I wonder if the people responsible for this killing ever imagined that more than 100,000 people would turn out and say Syria go home.

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:43:15 +0000

Let’s see if we can get Kinsley to say this: “But Bush,for all his repressiveness and propensity for mischief, also has to be given a share of the credit for providing the security that made Iraq’s reconstruction possible”…

By: JB

JB — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:22:21 +0000

“No morals, no principles, no nothing. It’s all a sham. There is nothing they believe in except perhaps their innate superiority.”

A choice quote from Eric Alan Beltt’s Liberalism is a psychology:

“Liberalism isnít a political ideology; itís a psychology – the psychology of self-satisfaction to be precise.”

By: charlotte

charlotte — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 14:20:16 +0000

Chuck,

Don’t slide. Jump! We need all the smart people, men and women of principles, and even gay prostitute journos we can get our hands on.

By: Lola

Lola — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:48:18 +0000

Let’s not forget the people within Syria who would like a change of the government as well. Reform Party of Syria has a website – see link below

http://reformsyria.org/

By: John¬©

John¬© — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:42:10 +0000

Roger: Kudos for blogging this story. It’s more than a little distressing to discover you’re nearly alone in trying to generate interest and clarity on the issue of Rafik Hariri’s assassination. Where is the MSM? I’ve been waiting–in vain–for the big New Yorker or NYT (60 Minutes?) investigative piece that places this terrible act in the necessary global WOT perspective.

BTW, in addition to all his other good works, Hariri was responsible for more than 30,000 (match that Soros!) scholarships, grants and loans to Arabic students–many of them (including a student of mine who recently received a PhD) for study in the US. Hariri also had unusually strong ties to the US; e.g. Boston U’s B-School (“the best B-school campus in the US,” Princeton Review) was funded by– and named for Rafik. I can’t help but think that his killing is a reprisal again his secular Islamic internationalism and a major blow to US-Arabic relations. It’s a real disgrace that the MSM has completely ignored the import of his assassination.

By: chuck

chuck — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 04:19:52 +0000

“But Syria,for all its repressiveness and propensity for mischief, also has to be given a share of the credit for providing the security that made Hariri’s reconstruction possible”

Kevin,

These guys are getting damn disgusting. Now they will support the oppressors against a genuine people’s rebellion? Gah. No morals, no principles, no nothing. It’s all a sham. There is nothing they believe in except perhaps their innate superiority.

I feel myself sliding from Independent to Republican at this very moment.

By: Bruce W.

Bruce W. — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 03:48:13 +0000

neo2con: Sort of reminds one of a certain world war a few years back, don’t it? But this one could actually lead to some real and lasting good.

May the domino fall, but may it fall gently. And may only the best come of this.

Assad is a marked man from many directions now…and we all know what cornered dogs do.

I think he’ll be taken out from within; then we’ll see what we are really dealing with in this Axis country.

By: Kevin P

Kevin P — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 03:47:16 +0000

Chuck:

The left has already responded. This is from wednesday’s LA Times editorial titled “The Devil We know in Lebanon”- “But Syria,for all its repressiveness and propensity for mischief, also has to be given a share of the credit for providing the security that made Hariri’s reconstruction possible”

Don’t you just love how Kinsley blends repressivness and MISCHIEF into the same sentence.As if providing the funds and training for suicide bombings can be termed as innocent hijinks. Syria and the PLO jump started the Lebanese civil war and Kinsley gives Syria the credit for putting out the fire they helped start.In their hate for Bush the old sixties radicals have gone from being the supposed beacons of light for the downtrodden to the status qou supporters of stable but repressive governments. Since Bush called for freedom and democracy the left has to reflexily say the opposite. Can you imagine Kinsley and Pat Buchannon being ideological bedmates. The irony is to much to take.