Roger Hardy explains Lebanon's apparently unending political crisis - and what are the regional and global implications.
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UN resolutions have called on Hezbollah, which fields one of the most formidable fighting forces in the Middle East, to disarm and cede military control in the south to the multi-sectarian Lebanese Army. The problem is that there isn't any power that can disarm Hezbollah, and it has no interest in forfeiting its military power.
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UN resolutions have called on Hezbollah, which fields one of the most formidable fighting forces in the Middle East, to disarm and cede military control in the south to the multi-sectarian Lebanese Army. The problem is that there isn't any power that can disarm Hezbollah, and it has no interest in forfeiting its military power.
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dhinmi.dailykos.com
"Oops" can describe much of what's happened in Lebanon since early 2005. To be ever-so-slightly generous to nitwits like Brooks, in 2005-2006 there was some cause for optimism about reform movements in the Arab countries and the Middle East. As Economist Middle East editor Max Rodenbeck explains in a review of the new book by WaPo reporter Robin Wright, in those years there were signs of reform from Morocco and Egypt through Lebanon, Syria and Iran.
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(And: Israel still a Jekyll & Hyde nation )
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bhfrick.dailykos.com
UN resolutions have called on Hezbollah, which fields one of the most formidable fighting forces in the Middle East, to disarm and cede military control in the south to the multi-sectarian Lebanese Army. The problem is that there isn't any power that can disarm Hezbollah, and it has no interest in forfeiting its military power.
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