Article

2005-02-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2005-02-25 9:13:15 PM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In the last thirty years, I can't think of a country that has tarnished the reputation of more "experts" than Lebonon. Maybe the MSM in Byzantium would disagree.

Posted by itsawonder 2005-02-25 1:22:25 AM|| 2005-02-25 1:22:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 its prague spring--watch out for the tanks

Posted by SON OF TOLUI 2005-02-25 2:51:19 AM|| 2005-02-25 2:51:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Jumblatt dresses like an ex-hippie, in jeans and loafers,

I don't know many hippies who wear loafers. I'm not sure whether or not I should question the rest of this article just because of this error. Hippies in "loafers"???. But then, he said, "ex" hippies. I don't know, maybe East of Appalachia, ex-hippies actually do wear loafers. How sad is that?

Anyhoo...this article is unsettling in that it provides too much hope, optimism and common sense. What's the catch?

Posted by 2b 2005-02-25 2:56:16 AM|| 2005-02-25 2:56:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 hmmm...after a very stiff glass of sleep aide, I have to rethink this whole thing. No...not that Hezbollah might have actually gotten a clue that under a democratic system, as in Iraq, that they, being the popular guys, at one with large swaths of people, might actually get a bigger cut of the action if they dumped the spoiled brat and the little group of sexually repressed Mullahs and started their own enterprise. I mean...GET REAL! Why should they have to wait until the next life to get laid?

Look at Assad! He's a wimp! They can take him. And the Mullahs? These guys don't rock and roll, if you know what I mean.

No, no, no. I'm rethinking the penny loafer issue. A friend of mine once said that hippies were just geeks who came to the realization that they had a much greater chance of getting laid if they disguised themselves with long hair and peace symbols. So..in that sense, it's very logical that they would wear loafers in their old age.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-25 3:29:34 AM|| 2005-02-25 3:29:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq," explains Jumblatt. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world." Jumblatt says this spark of democratic revolt is spreading. "The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it."

And that, ladies and germs, is our meme. And in the Washington Post, no less. Any chance Bush will get the credit he deserves? (Sorry, extreme Pollyanna moment there. I'm ok now.)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-25 7:08:10 AM|| 2005-02-25 7:08:10 AM|| Front Page Top

23:22 ITolYouSoLucy
23:21 ITolYouSoLucy
11:57 ITolYouSoLucy
16:33 ITolYouSoLucy
12:17 ITolYouSoLucy
23:49 trailing wife
23:39 Laurence of the Rats
23:37 anonymous2u
23:31 anonymous2u
23:26 3dc
23:25 ed
23:06 ed
23:05 Leigh
22:54 Sobiesky
22:53 CrazyFool
22:46 Alaska Paul
22:43 Alaska Paul
22:29 JP
22:09 Robert Crawford
22:00 Zpaz
21:58 Frank G
21:54 Frank G
21:54 badanov
21:52 Wuzzalib