SYRIA OUT!!!
Today the pro-Syrian government in Lebanon folded after persistant pressure from tens of thousands of demonstrators who risked their lives to protest the assassination of Rafik Hariri and the occupation of Lebanon by Syria.
Walid Jumblatt, the Druze leader and Lebanese parliamentarian, who has not been a friend of the Bush Administration or the US occupation of Iraq, had a change of heart as a strong opposition front that included thousands of Lebanese expatriots...Muslim, Christian and Druze protestors, took to the streets in Paris, Stockholm, London, Kuwait City and Beirut. Jumblatt once called Paul Wolfowitz a "virus" and regretted that the Deputy Defense Secy hadn't been killed in a terrorist rocket strike in Baghdad just a month ago. Soooo it says something about the changing face of the Middle East when he told Washington Post reporter, David Ignatius, "..this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, eight million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing."
Indeed. The "Dominos" are falling as predicted by the neo-con visionaries in the Bush Administration, and now with Condi Rice openly condemning Syria (something new for the State Dept.?); AND with Al Jazerra televising the unlikely march for democracy to the Arab Street, I suspect many more hearts and minds have converted to Jumblatt's way of thinking. Now is the moment to make an ally of Lebanese people in their quest for freedom just as we did for the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine..the road to emasculating Damascus is through Lebanon..and perhaps the road to Peace in the Middle East is nearby?
Walid Jumblatt, the Druze leader and Lebanese parliamentarian, who has not been a friend of the Bush Administration or the US occupation of Iraq, had a change of heart as a strong opposition front that included thousands of Lebanese expatriots...Muslim, Christian and Druze protestors, took to the streets in Paris, Stockholm, London, Kuwait City and Beirut. Jumblatt once called Paul Wolfowitz a "virus" and regretted that the Deputy Defense Secy hadn't been killed in a terrorist rocket strike in Baghdad just a month ago. Soooo it says something about the changing face of the Middle East when he told Washington Post reporter, David Ignatius, "..this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, eight million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing."
Indeed. The "Dominos" are falling as predicted by the neo-con visionaries in the Bush Administration, and now with Condi Rice openly condemning Syria (something new for the State Dept.?); AND with Al Jazerra televising the unlikely march for democracy to the Arab Street, I suspect many more hearts and minds have converted to Jumblatt's way of thinking. Now is the moment to make an ally of Lebanese people in their quest for freedom just as we did for the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine..the road to emasculating Damascus is through Lebanon..and perhaps the road to Peace in the Middle East is nearby?
posted by K.P.Ryan at 12:02 PM
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