Oh, well this is just fantastic. Just pure awesome. Apparently James Baker has figured out that selling out the Cedar Revolution is a going to destroy the Republican party, and so he might be taking Lebanon off the table as a bargaining chip. Beirut Spring reports that someone just leaked an internal document on the question:
We’re of course notoriously torn about Lebanon. On one hand, yes, many in the country are being held hostage by Hezbollah’s Iran-promoting agenda. On the other hand, Lebanon Prime Minister Fouad Siniora is the one who let Hezbollah into the governing coalition, making them a part of the Lebanese government – and he’s the one who celebrated Hezbollah starting the Lebanon II war, who made up absurd lies about how Jews intentionally kill babies during the war, and who personally intervened to help Hezbollah rearm after the war, . Oh, and he’s also the one who declared that he’ll be the last Arab leader on the planet to make peace with Israel. So forgive us if we have some negative feelings about so-called Lebanese moderates.
But even if that was not the case, this grandiose gesture by Baker is not exactly comforting. Syria has two regional ambitions outside Iraq: control of Lebanon and a strategic position from which to attack Israel. If Baker isn’t giving them Lebanon…
Previously: John Mearsheimer – Not Anti-Semitic. Just Anti-Semiticish, What We Know About the New SecDef So Far, At This Point, Journalists Are Literally Just Going Through The Motions Of Covering Up Their Bias
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