Lebanese government backs U.N. tribunal
The Associated Press by Yahoo has a story about the Lebanese government voting for a UN tribunal with regards to the Hariri assasination.
A couple things are intriging about this article. The first is the beginning sentence of the article.
The U.S.-backed government on Saturday approved an international tribunal for suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, overriding the objections of Hezbollah amid a political crisis that threatens to spin Lebanon into violence.
I'm sorry, I thought it was the democratically elected government of Lebanon. "U.S.-backed" makes it sound like it is being propped up by America and is not supported by the majority of the people. Of course the US recognizes the freely elected government. That is what we are about.
The second issue I have is this sentence.
Lebanon's Syria-allied president denounced the vote as did Hezbollah officials, who warned that the Shiite Muslim militant group would go ahead with threatened mass street protests seeking to force the government from power.
Well of course they did, since Syria is being looked at as the perpetrator of the murder. This also sounds like the Democrats to me. If a party is out of power and somebody votes for something that they disagree with, they stage a protest, often violent.
Finally, the article states.
"The government represents part of the Lebanese people, not all of them. Its decisions are void," Ezzeddine told Al-Arabiya television.
Hello, this is called a democracy. As a parlimentary democracy, it does represent all the people as all parties in the government are represented based on the proportion of votes received by their party. Now, a minority may not get what it wants, but typically the majority does. Again, this is called a democracy.
I guess that if the minority Shi'ite Hezbollah movement had more than its duly elected representatives in the government or if Hezbollah controlled the government then that government would represent all the people.
On the bright side, Hezbollah and Syrian allied forces only have to assassinate two more representatives to dissolve this duly elected government.
A couple things are intriging about this article. The first is the beginning sentence of the article.
The U.S.-backed government on Saturday approved an international tribunal for suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, overriding the objections of Hezbollah amid a political crisis that threatens to spin Lebanon into violence.
I'm sorry, I thought it was the democratically elected government of Lebanon. "U.S.-backed" makes it sound like it is being propped up by America and is not supported by the majority of the people. Of course the US recognizes the freely elected government. That is what we are about.
The second issue I have is this sentence.
Lebanon's Syria-allied president denounced the vote as did Hezbollah officials, who warned that the Shiite Muslim militant group would go ahead with threatened mass street protests seeking to force the government from power.
Well of course they did, since Syria is being looked at as the perpetrator of the murder. This also sounds like the Democrats to me. If a party is out of power and somebody votes for something that they disagree with, they stage a protest, often violent.
Finally, the article states.
"The government represents part of the Lebanese people, not all of them. Its decisions are void," Ezzeddine told Al-Arabiya television.
Hello, this is called a democracy. As a parlimentary democracy, it does represent all the people as all parties in the government are represented based on the proportion of votes received by their party. Now, a minority may not get what it wants, but typically the majority does. Again, this is called a democracy.
I guess that if the minority Shi'ite Hezbollah movement had more than its duly elected representatives in the government or if Hezbollah controlled the government then that government would represent all the people.
On the bright side, Hezbollah and Syrian allied forces only have to assassinate two more representatives to dissolve this duly elected government.
posted by Lieutenant Colonel Caveman at Sunday, November 26, 2006
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