I believe that we would be making a mistake talking to the Syrians just after their latest political murder. It's the UN Investigative Inquiry, it's Lebanese democratic values, it's autonomy for a beleaguered minority of Christians in the region, and it's talking with a country that harbors terrorists like Kamel Mashaal, the terror-lord of Hamas, who calls the bombings in the West Bank and Gaza steps to destroy Israel.
Syria is trying to murder and blackmail its way back into the good graces of the US and UN. I could understand the feckless spineless UN bending under the pressure, but the US is perceived by the Christians in Lebanon as in some way their Guarantor, and the Cedar Revolution was the only unsullied plus for US diplomacy in the region until Syria ordered its Orcs to kill Hariri, Gemayel, and other Christian and Sunni leaders.

If the US doesn't stand up for Lebanon, we might as well pack it in and abandon Israel as well. The message the US would be sending would be that Osama was right, Americans are not bloody-minded enough to stomach long-term military engagements and are isolationists at heart.

Hizbullah is threatening to destroy Lebanon again. They're considering going ahead with their demonstrations that they wisely held off when Pierre Gemayel was assassinated last week. Hizbullah, along with Assad in Syria, doesn't want the investigatio...

While the French Lead UN force is concerning itself with the very important question about whether or not they should shoot down Israeli reconnaissance flights, it seems Iran is happily resupplying Hizballah. Those French / UN boys are really on their ...