We can only begin to imagine the despair now coursing through the veins of Arab reformers as they watch the unfolding of the future New Middle East. In Beirut, killers eliminated yet another critic of Syria's strongman Bashar al-Assad, murdering Pierre Gemayel, a Christian cabinet member and a fierce critic of Syrian interference in Lebanon.
Gemayel died in a hail of bullets just as the United States prepares to abandon the collapsing experiment to bring democracy to the Middle East, aiming to replace it with a return to the old style ''realpolitik'' of making friends with distasteful characters, regardless of what they do when not shaking hands with U.S. diplomats.
One of the biggest beneficiaries of the shift could be none other than Assad, the Syrian president, despised not only by reformers in his own country but also by most Lebanese outside Hezbollah. Assad, of course, is also the man many believe responsible for the murder of Gemayel and several other prominent pro-Western, pro-democracy Lebanese
iT WOULD APPEAR THAT SOME FEEL THE us IS ABOUT TO OFFER A "NEW" PLAN FOR THE ME.
MiamiHerald.com | 11/24/2006 | Yet another reason to grieve in Lebanon
Does any new plan have a hint of success with it? Or is it farting in the wind?
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