Out with the Old
With the fall of the pro-Syrian Lebanese government, we see that Syria played the wrong card, and at the wrong time. Iraqi elections last month are having a huge effect throughout the region, especially in Lebanon, with its own history of democracy.
Publius Pundit is tracking developments there, and he reminds us that pictures of Lebanese demonstrating for independence from Syria are being broadcast all across the Arab world by Aljazeera, which has a story with these words on its web pages:
"We want to ask the government, which is responsible for security in Lebanon, about its responsibility for al-Hariri's assassination," he told Aljazeera.
"We also want to politically penalise the government, as it has battled the Lebanese people all this time, forced by Syria," Jumail added.
The government no longer represents the people, he said.
"We want a self-ruled government that meets the ambitions of the people and judges according to the Lebanese free will," he said.
| Feb. 28, 2005 | 2:17 PM