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When a government official leaks classified information, it is a crime, and the person should be tried and, if found guilty, punished. Journalists should be held accountable if they aid and abet in the crime. The natural conflict between the government and the press should be resolved by the Legislative and Judicial branches. It would benefit our society to have these cases taken to court. Nobody has the right to reveal sensitive information that has the potential to threaten our national security...
...following three propositions regarding the Middle East are axiomatic. One, for the U.S., the region poses the critical test of its capacity for global leadership. Two, the parties in the conflict cannot reach a constructive and durable resolution on their own. Three, the experience of the U.S. in Iraq, and the total experience of Israel in its several conflicts with its Arab neighbors, including its ongoing repression of the Palestinians, cumulatively demonstrates that even overwhelming military power cannot produce acceptable and lasting political outcomes. Theoretically, the U.S. could mobilize all of its might and treasure to impose its will...
...will make Israel and its people more real and easier to relate to. Much of anti-Israeli sentiment that I have heard in Syria before has been rhetorical, operating at the most general level with references to "the Zionist enemy" and "the Jews" and the sense of an eternal conflict. In Beirut, by contrast, I was frequently startled to hear everyone from cab drivers to political figures pragmatically compare Israel and Lebanon, wondering whose service sector would dominate once peace was made...
...moment, neither is proving helpful in understanding why the "open confrontation," as al-Jazeera calls it, is continuing. Hizballah has no chance of winning Palestine back for the Palestinians, and Israel's attacks on Hizballah do nothing, long-term, to make its borders safer. But if this conflict continues much longer, Lebanon will have no chance of remaining the special place it is - and I will have to stay in Damascus, a city I do love, for all the wrong reasons...
...Hariri: If you want to resolve the issue, you have to resolve whole problem of Lebanon. We still have territory occupied [by Israel], we still have Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails, we still have Israel intruding into our territory, airspace and waters even before this conflict. A global solution would make the government stronger and give us a reason to move forward on a lot of issues. But if there is only half a solution, then it won't resolve anything...