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2008-03-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2008-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 If a people demonstrates peacefully and obtains what it wants, it is then the international community's responsibility to help protect this achievement when threatened by regional powers

Words fail.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-03-15 10:37|| 2008-03-15 10:37|| Front Page Top

#2 I dunno. We did pretty much let the "Cedar Revolution" rot, and the worms of Hezbollah set in with no way for the locals to push them back out.

US stabilization efforts would certainly have helped, especially in rooting out Hezbollah in the south. Little payback for Beruit.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-03-15 11:37|| 2008-03-15 11:37|| Front Page Top

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