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• Sunday, May 11, 2008 08:09 AM

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  Shooter... On the other hand the Lebanon situation is a good excercise of what can happen when we don't interfere in national politics. I'd say that's relevant to global politics, certainly more so than anything else going on here.

  The "Lebanon situation" as Shooter calls it has come about precisely because we probably have interfered in their national politics, and incompetently as is usual and come to be expected by this administration. It is their signature. A potent mix of belligerence and incompetence.

  NYTimes:

  ...humiliating blows made clearer than ever the power and determination of Hezbollah, a Shiite group backed by Iran and Syria, and its allies. By Friday afternoon, armed Shiite fighters were riding joyfully through west Beirut in a long column of trucks, cars and scooters, shouting and firing their weapons into the air in a raucous victory celebration.

  The government majority issued an urgent appeal for help from other nations on Friday evening, calling Hezbollah’s actions an “armed coup” against Lebanon and its democratic system using “weapons sent by Tehran.” Some government lawmakers, including the Druse leader, Walid Jumblatt, and Saad Hariri, the son of the assassinated former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, spent the day holed up in their compounds, protected by Lebanese Army contingents and the police.

  For all intents and purposes the battle in Lebanon is over and Hezbollah has won. Any fool could have told you that would happen. If they can fight the IDF and IAF to a standstill, the Lebanese Army never had a chance.

  Out of curiousity

  Who are the salonistas rooting for in Lebanon? Hezbollah?

  -- shooter242

  Just remember that when you take sides in this as in all other ME disputes, then you are part of the problem.

  Pat Lang

  —L.W.M. Read L.W.M.'s other letters
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