The Road To Damascus Is Going To Need More Lanes

The spectre of democracy is looming in another part of the Middle East, with citizens demanding (and getting) the resignation of the odious pro-Syrian (and pro-Ba'athist) Lebanese government.

How this will play with the status-quo happy left is anyone's guess, but frothing rage is a fairly safe bet:-

Those who want to get with the latest US program must put the blame on Syria. What for? Doesn’t matter in the least. Whether it is for the two world wars, the demise of Elvis or sinking the Titanic, Syria makes a handy and eminently fashionable punching bag. Even if Syria’s accusers get it wrong, no matter. Syria’s friends are one by one deserting an apparently sinking ship.

The US clearly blames Syria for the assassination of Rafik Hariri in downtown Beirut. It hasn’t said so in so many words. Instead, it has pulled out its ambassador.


For once, this ratbag may be more correct than she's ever been; does anyone think the Syrians (and their tame regime in Beirut) would stand by and allow a democratic movement to grow, and reach the stage where it could cause a puppet regime to run like poodles if there weren't 120,000 US troops (many of them airborne) less than twenty minutes flight time from Lebanon?

Syria has good reason to be concerned- as the last Ba'athist state in the Middle East (and a major source of Iraq's insurgents) it is in dire need of a major restructure; this can be done either internally, through democratic reform, or externally courtesy of the USAF.

(Cross-posted at the Daily Diatribe).

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