26 April 2005
Foreign Occupation Down 100%
CNN reports that Syria has finished withdrawing its troops from Lebanon.
Ten weeks after the mass protests started and they left without firing a shot. That's a pretty sweet conclusion to the problem.
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It was 10 weeks from the Valentine Day explosion that murdered Rafik Hariri. However was the reason for the exit because of the UN Resolution 1559 which was drafted in Sept '04 or the people's rioting that resulted in the Syrian exit? Or was it Syria cost benefit analysis experts that showed that the cost of occupation became too expensive for it's benefits (market morality)? The answer doesn't really matter as the results look great, however in reality from the Lebanese point of view, it took a total of 29 years.
I guess it wouldn't hurt to say that Bush's use of pressure using the existing UN Resolution was masterful. Bravo!
Bush the internationalist!
See http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/040903/2004090311.html
"With a majority of nine votes, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for honoring Lebanon's sovereignty and withdrawing all foreign forces from it.
Voting support for the resolution number 1559, came from the USA and France and Angola, Spain, Germany, Benin, Britain, Chile and Romania, while six countries abstained from voting which are Algeria, Brazil, China, Pakistan, the Philippines and Russia."
Posted by: puzzleboydave | 26 April 2005
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