Posted on 03/16/2010 8:09:40 AM PDT by Texas Peartree
One of the signature achievements of the Bush Administration was pressuring the Syrians to give up their occupation of Lebanon. "Occupation" is a strong word, but how else would one describe a situation where a foreign power (a) assassinates the elected leader of Lebanon, (b) has their proxies take to the streets better armed than the nation's own armed forces, (c) controls the occupied nation’s intelligence and police forces, and (d) has 15,000 troops strategically based around the tiny nation?
In 2005, the Syrians left Lebanon after 30 years of occupation and domination. Oh, and Syria still considers Lebanon to be a province of Syria wrongly taken from them. Lebanon is Syria’s Taiwan, but not yet her Tibet. The Cedar Revolution was meant to declare independence from Syrian domination and perhaps ally Lebanon to traditional colonial power France, as well as to the United States.
Today, the situation is much worse and the brave people (Shia, Druze, Christian and Sunni) who participated in the Cedar Revolution must know that their efforts were for naught. Lebanon is a multiethnic democracy, which is very hard to maintain. Only Israel shares that distinction in the Middle East. On the other hand, Syria is a brutal dictatorship and an apartheid state where the Alawites (7% of the population) rule over the multiethnic state.
The Druze of Lebanon courageously fought for an independent Lebanon. Their community’s leader, Walid Jumblatt, called Syrian "President" Assad a “snake” and a “tyrant” backing 2005. Assad in turn tried to overrun the Druze strongholds in the mountains. Now, seeing how weak Obama is in promoting and nurturing democracy, Walid Jumblatt is apologizing to Assad and making his separate peace with Syria's brutal dictator.
President Obama believes that everything President Bush did was a mistake. That is his prerogative. However...
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Thats the NEW pro islamic america at work with our tax dollars!
Evil bastard.
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