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To: Stoat

France wants their colony back so Chiraq is soldily behind getting Syria out. Kofi...is mostly harmless.


10 posted on 03/18/2005 1:25:26 PM PST by BJClinton (“Give me your DUmmies, your Idiots, your Leftist Wackos yearning to be sanity free.” ~PJ-Comix)
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To: BJClinton
France wants their colony back so Chiraq is soldily behind getting Syria out.

I am guessing that in this case, what France wants and what France will get may be two entirely different things.  The Lebanese people are highly educated and very astute.  They have been paying very close attention to world events, and they know the perils associated with French involvement, versus the benign and entirely helpful results of U.S. involvement, as demonstrated in Iraq and elsewhere.  I think that if France offers 'no strings' help, it may be accepted but the Lebanese people will be particularly wary of France and any efforts to get it's hooks into Lebanon. 

They are just now emerging from decades of oppression from Syria, and I doubt that they want to merely trade one slave master for another.  The Lebanese people yearn for freedom and autonomy....you can see it in their eyes and in their words. 

The domino chain that was begun with a free Iraq continues, and there is little that can stop a passionate drive for freedom short of a full-scale military clampdown.  I don't see that coming from Syria....Assad has too many other troubles at the moment.

11 posted on 03/18/2005 1:34:37 PM PST by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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