 The Lebanese opposition is turning up the heat on the pro-Syrian Lebanese government, hoping to garner broad international support behind its demand for a full Syrian military withdrawal from the country. The campaign to end Syria's near 30-year military presence in Lebanon nonetheless appears to be bearing some fruit. A delegation of opposition MPs met this week in Brussels with European Union external affairs commissioner Javier Solana and with French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier. One of the government's leading opponents, the Druze politician Walid Jumblatt, was also in Moscow to confer with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Larov.
| Oh yeah, talk to the Russians, that'll do a lot of good. |
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