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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
And what you have there is not exactly a groundswell for representative democracy, except among the Hezbollah supporters who would like to have representation proportionate to their numbers -- something your "pro-democracy" Maronites and Druze have opposed.
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You didn't read the posts from this morning, did you?
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If our invasion of Iraq made a difference, I suggest the difference is that Syria feels exposed now in a way that it did not before, and feels compelled to withdraw its forces as a result.
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I would agree that this is certainly part of it. Exposed to what? Our military? A changed Iraq? A shrinking world for tyrants? A lifting of the feeling of powerlessness amongst subjugated peoples? All of them?
