Lebanon; pundits again ignore most the FACTS. [View All]

[LynnTheDem]

In Saturday's NYT, David Brooks makes the case that the recent popular protests in Lebanon against the Syrian occupation are a result of the Bush administration's policies in Iraq. It appears to be a pretty compelling argument.

Of course, if you ignore half the relevant facts like Brooks did, you can quote the same sources and make just the opposite case.

What if Brooks had instead quoted Walid Jumblatt from two months ago, when he described how "we are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed in Iraq week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory."

As it regards Syria's occupation in Lebanon, our "maximalist" foreign policy didn't work out quite as well in 1991, when we "quietly supported the Syrian assault" against the Lebanese nationalists in power at the time - the same folks who Brooks is celebrating today.

http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=341