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Originally posted by bilmore
You didn't read the posts from this morning, did you?
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I know about the demonstrations today, and think they're great. I'm talking about something more fundamental. Seats in the Lebanese parliament are allocated according to the 1932 census, with results that overrepresent Christians and undercount Shi'a. Also, the President must be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister must be a Sunni, and the speaker of the legislature must be a Shi'a.
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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?
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Our military. Iraq is changed, but not in a way that threatens Syria. It's true that fax machines and jet airplanes have shrunk the world for tyrants just like the rest of us, but I think Assad is too busy running his country to jet off to the Cote d'Azur for the weekend. "A lifting of the feeling of powerlessness amongst subjugated peoples?" Does Hallmark make a card for that now? That's part of Bush's "tone," right?
