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2007-06-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria's master plan to destroy Lebanon again

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Posted by Sherry 2007-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Why does Syria want Lebanon so badly????

They think they are a bigger power than what they are.It must be an ego thing knowing that Saudi,Israel and Even Iran are more powerful on the world scene hurts them!!!!

Posted by Paul 2007-06-22 06:00|| 2007-06-22 06:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Lebanon is an artificial construct, Paul, wrested from the Ottoman empire's Syria province. Just as Saddam Hussein's Iraq considered Kuwait to be carved out from their stolen seacoast, so too Syria considers Lebanon to have been carved out of theirs by French and English connivance after World War I. (see map for details -- it's from the CIA website, so it's probably pretty accurate)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-22 06:31|| 2007-06-22 06:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Artificial just like Syria or Irak. Also a number of Lebanese consider themselves as descdendents of Phenicians and not as Arabs.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-06-22 07:58|| 2007-06-22 07:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Of course there's that, JFM. But the would-be conquerers don't think much beyond, "Mi-i-i-ine!"

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-22 08:32|| 2007-06-22 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5 O.K. all you Professors out there ...

So why were Lebanon and Kuwait created at all? A look at the map suggests they were enclaves of some sort...

Posted by Mohammad Khatami 2007-06-22 08:36|| 2007-06-22 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I think it would be better to ask why Iraq and Syria were created; Lebanon and Kuwait both predate them, in Lebanon's case by millennia. This Wikipedia entry on subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire should shed some light on the issue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_the_Ottoman_Empire

It is my impression, however, that Syria was created largely to hand something worthless to the France once the British realized a mandate in Iraq would include oil, then replacing coal as the power of the Royal Navy.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-06-22 12:21|| 2007-06-22 12:21|| Front Page Top

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