In the words of ML, “Faster, please”
February 21, 2005 - 10:41 am
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Great googley moogley! Syria and Iran join in a mutual defense pact. Russia wants to throw in with Iran. Lebanon wants to break free of Syria. Turkey must be lapping this up.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays in the foreign media. From the very day of the funeral, France2 news has shown “man on the street” interviews in Beirut where several people were saying there will be an Orange Revolution. Of course some already are saying “the US attempt to organize a franchised ‘Cedar’ revolution in Lebanon”.
Either way, it looks like Syria might be biting off more than it can chew.
Fausta,
Although his topic is Europe, Mark Steyn seems to agree with you re: Syria.
It’s been over 20 years since the Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed. 220 Marines died without firing a shot in their own defense.
Iran was responsible and Hezbollah.
Maybe Iran should be on the list of suspects for Hariri’s assassination, too.
Syria may have made a mistake and Iran might have done the same thing. It sounds like Russia is helping them both. That would be really stupid.
The London Times is reporting that the strongman in Damascus told them he is pulling his troops out of Lebanon. Another liberaton. Now we have Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Ukraine, and probably more. Stand by for Iran, NoKo, maybe Egypt, etc. We could be watching the best foreign policy operations in the history of the United States.
I would love to be a fly on the wall when Bush has that private dinner with Chirac . . . and you know very well that Bush speaks his mind and is unapologetic about it. Hopefully someone can get a picture of Chriac’s face after the dinner . . .
It’s good to know that ‘unintended consequences’ are not always bad.
It does seem as though democracy might be catching, and that the Lebanese people have recently caught the bug. Or maybe they’ve simply been empowered and emboldened by certain recent events (Iraq, anyone?) to express their latent and long-held desire to end the Syrian occupation.
So far, unless I’m missing something, it seems awfully quiet on the leftern front concerning the right of self-determination of the Lebanese people. Maybe it’s because, in leftists’ eyes, its so very hard to admit that a third-world country like Syria can be a brutal occupier. That designation is usually reserved for the US, and for the US only.
neo-neocon,
Maybe it’s because, in leftists’ eyes, its so very hard to admit that a third-world country like Syria can be a brutal occupier. That designation is usually reserved for the US, and for the US only.
This is not surprising when you come to realize that “left” is simply a symbol meaning “anti-Western” or “anti-American”.
The ultimate hegemonic racism lurks behind this attitude: only white Americans can be wrong, you see, because only white Americans are real people.
I have to admit it is nice to see people demonstrating against someone else for a change.
Neo-neocon ó Syria is not a “brutal occupier”… they’re “providing stability.”
Oh, crap, here comes the rain again…