Just take a look at todays newspaper and you will see that still many Lebanese are (as you claim) traditionalists and they start protesting for the Syrian "occupation".
Of course, Conservatives have the same structure, but it is a bit like the difference between Nazi Germany and Stalin Russia. Both were socialists in their underlying philosophy, but they hated each other strongly.
It is the same with the Middle East and that might be why there won't be a free Lebanon, in the end...
by Max Swing on March 8, 2005 at 9:31 AM