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To: Sam who wrote (158888)	3/8/2005 1:43:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Many flies in the ointment. Here is another one. Good thing they're having an election soon, so we can get a better picture of where the majority of Lebanese stand. True. Let's hope the election comes off. There is no guarantee that the opposition will win in Lebanon. Hizbullah is very strong (and smarter and better led than Syria, imo). Don't you love the way that this organization, which gets $100 million a year from Iran, stands up and says, "thank you Syria!" and "no foreign influence in Lebanon" in the same breath? Talk about irony-impaired! Revolutions have been crushed before. Think of 1848. However, this is the first mass movement in the whole Middle East (Israel excepted of course) hitting the streets in favor of a moderate, pluralistic and democratic cause. That has to count for something. Arab liberals have finally stopped making excuses to Tom Friedman and are making their voices heard.