A Little Democracy Goes a Long Ways In The Middle East

Funny How Diplomacy Works When It Has Teeth Behind It

from JoeUser Forums

      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.

 

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Chalk another one against "Mother May I" and "Pretty Please with Sugar On Top!" excuses for "diplomacy!"
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I always liked "Global Test"...
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
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
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

Expect the unexpected from the Arabs

My point exactly.

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
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
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
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.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

Nice pic.

heh.