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Ever wonder what it's like inside a Hizballah bunker but not so eager to get kidnapped just to find out? Well, for a short time and a short time only, anyone in Lebanon can experience the next best thing by visiting the new Hizballah museum in the southern suburbs of Beirut, where there is no admission charged and no blindfold required...
...Long Goodbye The enemies of democracy thrive on its rationality and willingness to compromise. Al-Qaeda was so emboldened by the weak response to attacks on U.S. troops in Lebanon (1983) and Somalia (in the 1990s) that it dared launch the suicide missions of 9/11 [July 30]. The U.S. must stay the course because if it retreats from Iraq, all enemies of freedom, especially al-Qaeda and its admirers, will become more adventurous. In addition, those religious zealots will claim Islam as one of their tragic victims. Husam Dughman, TORONTO
...enemies of democracy thrive on its rationality and willingness to compromise. Al-Qaeda was so emboldened by the weak response to attacks on U.S. troops in Lebanon (1983) and Somalia (in the 1990s) that it dared launch the suicide missions of 9/11. The U.S. must stay the course because if it retreats from Iraq, all enemies of freedom, especially al-Qaeda and its admirers, will become more adventurous. In addition, those religious zealots will claim Islam as one of their tragic victims. Husam Dughman, Toronto...
...What could Lebanese Christians possibly have in common with Hizballah, the Islamist resistance movement? Perhaps it is the fact that Aoun's Christian supporters and Hizballah's rank and file are motivated by a shared animus towards Lebanon's political elite, a handful of families such as the Gemayel, whose progeny resurface in government after government. In fact, many of the supporters of the current government are civil war-era militia leaders, who accommodated themselves rather nicely to the years of Syrian occupation, but who have now emerged wearing business suits and talking U.S.-friendly language about democracy and independence...
...Lebanon is a battlefield, but not in some global religious-ideological war. Instead, its politics reflects an old-fashioned power struggle between the fading regional superpower - the United States - and the rising power of Iran and its Syrian ally. And that's a conflict that is not going to be settled by any Lebanese by-election...