Posted on 05/21/2008 5:57:39 PM PDT by moderatewolverine
Hezbollah members could be seen removing mattresses from their encampments around Beirut after talks in Doha, Qatar, resulted in an agreement that for now promises to end the worst violence to grip Lebanon since its 1975-1990 civil war. This latest round left 67 dead. Hezbollah won.
Under the deal, the Hezbollah-led opposition will have its long-sought veto power in a new Cabinet of national unity. Obtaining this veto power was Hezbollah's key demand that triggered a year-and-a-half-long crisis as Lebanon struggled to select a new head of state to replace the pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, who finally left office on Nov. 23.
The standoff began in November 2006, when Hezbollah-led opposition lawmakers — in protest of the Cabinet's refusal to grant them enough seats to ensure their veto power — resigned from the government to prevent the majority needed to select a new president.
It is a victory for the Iranian-created, -financed and -armed terrorist organization that before 9/11 was responsible for killing more Americans — including 241 troops in their Beirut barracks in 1983 — than any other group. It is the stalking horse of Iran's quite-mad president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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worse than terrible. Our country needs to stop playing politics with national security. They need to do what is right for the country instead of what is right to secure their position.
“Our country needs to stop playing politics with national security. They need to do what is right for the country instead of what is right to secure their position.”
Our nation’s leadership is terrified of offending those who wish us dead.
To think of all those brave souls in Lebanon who staged those huge, peaceful uprisings (last year? the year before?)...I remember literally weeping with joy at the sight.
Heartbreaking.
Time to move that doomsday clock forward again.
Important news not noted by “news” reporters, who are pretending that this does not affect the United States.
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