Why do matters in the near east seem so simple. what if the government is overthrown. you will get: 1. another civil war. 2. this time it will be sunnis and shiis 3. an obscurantist regime in iran and a theocratic state in israel win from the spillage of arab blood. 4. this is not your usual democracy, the government does not mediate class differences. it mediates sect differences. 5. a civil war further infuses instability making american military presence more necessary to world capital. 6. true the government is inept and works for the banking sector, but the alternative is not a working class regime secular and democratic. 7. lebanon is a country where politics holds primacy and priority par exellence. just imagine that its internal debt is twice the GDP its currency is unshaken because its balance of payments is always positive, whilst its imports re ten times its exports. why that? because the decision to strike and get more instability is intertwined with the regional security arrangement in which the US plays a significant role. 8. the government is protecting the private banking interests. now if iran and syria can do that i.e. pay dividends and interests on huge loans to them, than the government will overthrow itself. but that is not likely. 9. and i have not mentioned syria a 'socialist country' with one of the highest income inequality rates in the world. so let us not jump the gun, overthrow yes but replace with what?
----- Original Message ---- From: Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2007 8:51:07 PM Subject: Lebanon's Labor Unions Call for a Sit-in to Protest Proposed Tax Hikes Perfect. International leftists, here's a country where the overthrow of the government is desirable _and_ feasible. -- Yoshie <http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/06/africa/ME-GEN-Lebanon.php> Lebanon's labor unions call for a sit-in to protest proposed tax hikes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
