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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If authoritarian governments are criticizing a group with substantial support, where does that leave the notion of supporting democracy?
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Nowhere. FYI, I didn't vote for Bush and the whole "democratization of the Middle East" thing never held much appeal for me. I'd rather not see the Muslim Brotherhood take power in Egypt.
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And the more Israel bombs Lebanon, the harder and harder it gets for Arab states to keep criticizing Hezbollah.
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Maybe. But until bombs started falling they seemed to find it pretty hard.
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Before too long, Hezbollah looks like the only resistance to unjust force -- the David, if you will, to Israel's Goliath. (Irony intended.)
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Hezbollah has been playing that card forever, and lots of people believed it. The card it seems to be playing now is that it is a serious military force -- one with laser-guided anti-tank weapons and cruise missiles. That looks a lot different than the rocks of the Palestinian Intifadah.
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Israel's bombing looks like the kiss of death for Lebanon's government, for a variety of different reasons. Not too long ago, you had protests against Syria's meddling in Lebanon. What's the over/under on when we'll see one of those protests again?
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No idea. Did those protests accomplish anything? Did that government even pay lip service to the notion of removing the private army that had occupied the country's southern region?
