A Little Democracy Goes a Long Ways In The Middle East

Funny How Diplomacy Works When It Has Teeth Behind It

Published on February 28, 2005 By greywar In Politics

Democracy will never catch on in the Middle East? Hmm seems like she has something else to say about that :

Think Syria would be reacting like this if there wasn't a nice avenue of approach now on it's border? Think The Lebanese protest might have ended in blood rather than the ouster of it's government? I do.

Comments

ParaTed2k

on Feb 28, 2005

Chalk another one against "Mother May I" and "Pretty Please with Sugar On Top!" excuses for "diplomacy!"

greywar

on Feb 28, 2005

I always liked "Global Test"...

zieinobia

on Feb 28, 2005

well Lebanon was never a little democracy, in fact it is the only democractic country in the arab world at least in the past ,
yet as you see it didn't end in blood ,it end with the resignation of the Karmi's Government ,and Basher El-assad changing his security advisors , and Syria now is facing its worset nightmares
Expect the unexpected from the Arabs

greywar

on Feb 28, 2005

Expect the unexpected from the Arabs

My point exactly.

zieinobia

on Feb 28, 2005

oh I forgot to tell you ,this picture was taken in the Showhadah Square near the great Mosque of Mohamed El-Amin where the Late prime minister Rafik El-Hariri was buried
the blood of a single man united the whole public

pseudosoldier

on Mar 01, 2005

Good article on this Link, originally printed in the New York Times (saw it today in the Early Bird). Crazy cool: "In scenes reminiscent of protests in the United States in the 1960's, protesters rushed to get to the site of the demonstration, just yards away from Mr. Hariri's grave, and camped through the night, waving Lebanese flags as anthems played on. Many handed flowers to the soldiers and beseeched them to cooperate with them. Despite orders to prevent demonstrators from entering the area, soldiers eventually relented to the flood of largely young protestors on Monday, and the demonstration carried on peacefully."

Nice pic.

greywar

on Mar 01, 2005

Nice pic.

heh.

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