Just say "NO"
Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in Lebanon's capital, Beirut, to applaud Syria's role in the country and reject Western "interference".The only vaguely similar phenomenon (referring to the protests in Beirut) was in 1989, when thousands of people, not all of them Christians, rallied around the controversial Christian Prime Minister, General Michel Aoun, at the presidential palace in Baabda after he had declared war on Syria and vowed to "break the head of the Alawite regime in Damascus".Barely 18 months later, after a sapping inter-Christian war between Mr Aoun and the main Christian militia, Syrian troops descended on Baabda and Mr Aoun fled to the French embassy and later to exile in France.
The Syrian move had a green light from Washington.
Damascus was backing the US-led coalition against Saddam Hussein in Kuwait at the time, so things were different.
The bottom line? You don't do what the Americans like, you get screwed for life, your daughter's life, and your daughter's daughter's life.
You don't see international governments invading the United States or threatening them regarding their own actions in their country, do you? When was the last time you heard Syria telling the US to fix its homeless problem? To pay off their debt to the UN? To pay more attention to the economy? Health care? Sure, Syrian foreign troops in Lebanon...but what about feeding your own citizens? Why don't you start looking after your own people before you stick your nose elsewhere? Fix your own problems before you try to fix someone elses. Too bad about that universal equation that you can't seem to shake:
posted by jessica @ 2:03 PM
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