With the car bombing of a Christian area in
....Beirut, Lebanon could be on the way to becoming the next Iraq.
Dubya and the Neocons should realize that Civil War, NOT DEMOCRACY, is the most likely outcome of their policies in the middle east. The truth is that Afghanistan and Iraq, the two Muslim states that have been "democratized" so far, instability and chaos are the norm.
True, Afhganistan is Taliban free and now producing bumper crops of Heroin under the protection of US Taxpayers. And Iraq had an "election" where the "result" was dicated by MULLAHS, NOT POLITICAL PARTIES, as in a "normal democracy."
But at some point the question must be asked: ARE WE JUST DIGGING A DEEPER HOLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
The US is hated, for the most part, on the Arab Street. And even the notion of the Arab Street, long denied by the pro-Israel pundits, has been vindicated. The point seems to be that Araby should be democratized, but not this way.
Democracy imposed by the west, and especially the pro-Israel Americans, will always be suspect.
Saddly, the car bomb today in Lebanon will not be the last..... I sense that the there is a civil war brewing just under the surface in that country. Lebanon could be like Bosnia during the bad old days by summer.
Or, put another way, Lebanon could be the next Lebanon!
Is NATO ready to occupy Lebanon and restore civil order.....? Is the US ready....it seems to be very "interventionist" these days even with huge deficits and soaring oil and gas prices....?
Or hmmmm....... WE COULD ASK SYRIA TO DO IT!
