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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Do you think they weren't already holding elections in Lebanon? "The Lebanese have been having often lively parliamentary election campaigns for decades. The idea that the urbane and sophisticated Beirutis had anything to learn from the Jan. 30 process in Iraq is absurd on the face of it. Elections were already scheduled in Lebanon for later this spring." (Juan Cole)
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Elections were scheduled? The Syrians killed the opposition. I know part of the Clinton White House SOP was killing opponents, but even he stopped short of the candidates.
Killing the opposition candidate has what to do with a democracy?
I believe the point Club makes is that w/o seeing people stand up to brutal force elsewhere, the Lebanese might well have taken this more meekly.
