A Few Thoughts

Since I haven't had much time the past few days - my recent posts where either short or just constituted of links - I'm going to post a couple more links here ...

The first is from the Washington Post - and it discusses Assad's letter to the UN. In it he states the same line he ran by Ammanpour in the recent infamous interview:

I have declared that Syria is innocent of this crime, and I am ready to follow up action to bring to trial any Syrian who could be proved by concrete evidence to have had connection with this crime.

Yesterday's UN session was relatively interesting to watch - but the more interesting ones were the press conference with Mehlis, and the short comments with Bolton.

My half-German/half-Lebanese friend P, who had lived in Lebanon for more than 10 years in Lebanon before his college days, had these exaggerated words to say ...

"Mehlis is a God in Lebanon. Interesting German control :P. This is the one problem with Lebanese, they're so quick to praise anyone. Just chill."

When I mention the pictures with the "We love Mehlis" t-shirts, he continues, in a slightly more serious tone:

"its' like in fisk's book about lebanon (or it might be the friedman book) how he describes the lebanese people praise the different armies entering lebanon because they think they're saving them."

That's not exactly what's happening now - but the attitude is the same.

Anyway, here's another link, completely unrelated to Mehlis, or Lebanon. It deals with remotely controlled humans.

And one more thing before I sign off and get back to work - there has been alot of talk about UN sanction on Syria, and alot more about how the world and analysts are focusing more on Syria than Lebanon. For the latter, I wonder deep down how surprised we really are. For the former - I completely do not agree with the structure of sanctions, even if it is against a regime that occupied us, corrupted us, restricted us, traumatized us etc. Unless these sanction have some specially unique form that excuses the rest of the Syrian people from the regime's actions, is that the way we want to go?

Yalla - off to work.

posted by Lazarus, 7:18 AM