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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Post-conflict Lebanon: the landscape beyond Hizbullah
2006-11-09
Posted by:Sleagum Ebbuck1006

#2  Unwarrented assumption #1: that there will ever be a "post"-conflict period

Unwarrented assumption #1: that there will still be a Lebanon if the conflict ever does becomes "post"
Posted by: Clogum Sheresh9575   2006-11-09 13:55  

#1  Every time I read something about politics in Lebanon I can't help thinking of the contentious war lords of the Illiad or the barbaric tribes "allied" agains Rome.

The ME is pre-modern in so many ways that it is hard to conceive of the proper response.
Posted by: AlanC   2006-11-09 12:48  

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