A little more Hitch, something to think about the murder of Pierre Gemayel.
The summa of wisdom in these circles is the need for consultation with Iraq's immediate neighbors in Syria and Iran. Given that these two regimes have recently succeeded in destroying the other most hopeful democratic experiment in the region—the brief emergence of a self-determined Lebanon that was free of foreign occupation—and are busily engaged in promoting their own version of sectarian mayhem there, through the trusty medium of Hezbollah, it looks as if a distinctly unsentimental process is under way.
This will present few difficulties to Baker, who supported the Syrian near-annexation of Lebanon. In order to recruit the Baathist regime of Hafez Assad to his coalition of the cynical against Saddam in the Kuwait war, Baker and Bush senior both acquiesced in the obliteration of Lebanese sovereignty.
This article tells about the funeral and preview of what may come.
Funeral turns into protest
800,000 in downtown Beirut vent anger at Syria, which they blame for assassination of Christian politician
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The coffin holding Pierre Gemayel passed overhead across the crowd, handed from mourner to mourner as women showered it with rice and flowers on its way into St. Georges Cathedral. Inside, his widow wept on the shoulder of her mother-in-law.
Outside, in downtown Beirut's Martyrs Square, hundreds of thousands turned the prominent Christian politician's funeral on Thursday into an expression of anger over an assassination that threatens to break open the schisms dividing this small Mediterranean country.
Not the first not the last
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We've heard the comparison to 1938 many times now, and in the last week, we've had this assassination, and the assassination of Litvinenko.
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