BEYOND THE DROPZONE

Why Should Christian Lebanese Forces Apologize to Hezbollah Terrorists?

Posted by W. Thomas Smith Jr. on 3 October 2008 at 10:17 pm UTC

Say it ain’t so, Samir!

NOW Lebanon is reporting:

“[According to sources] nonpolitical meetings were taking place between the Lebanese Forces and Hezbollah, in preparation for broader negotiations that will occur after the Eid al-Fitr vacation. The sources said that the atmosphere of the meetings was positive, and noted that they came after [LF leader Samir Geagea’s] apology for LF abuses committed during the civil war, which, the source said, Hezbollah had accepted.”

Reports of any such meetings have barely registered a blip with Western media — which either doesn’t understand the dynamics or doesn’t care about the criticality of the Lebanese front in the broader war on terror — when in fact any possibility of any reconciliation between the Christian Lebanese Forces and the Shiia terrorist group Hezbollah would be nothing less than disastrous for democracy in Lebanon and Lebanon’s pro-democracy majority (which already is experiencing a systematic usurping of its power and a degradation of its majority status at the hands of the Syrian-Iranian-Hezbollah axis).

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