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Friday, March 21, 2008
It looks like Lebanon’s so-called ‘’anti-Syrian’’ government will be boycotting the upcoming Arab League Summit in Damascus and that Lebanon will instead be represented at a lower level (ambassadorial) or by someone from the opposition. Fair enough but if they get lost on the way to Damascus then they have to call someone from the ruling clique for directions because no one knows the road to Damascus better then they do. They’d know the route blindfolded. The late Rafic Hariri made over five hundred (publicly announced) visits to Damascus during his five terms as Prime Minister and yet he’s remembered as being ‘’anti-Syrian’’. I bet that there are Beirut to Damascus service drivers who haven’t made that many trips to Damascus. If that’s ‘’anti-Syrian’’ then I’d hate to see how many visits pro-Syrian politicians made. How many visits to Damascus do you have to make before you’re considered pro-Syrian? A thousand sounds reasonable to me. We don’t want to jump to any hasty conclusions based on just five hundred visits.
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