On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> But no one really knows what their aims are, right? The danger here
> for the left it seems to me--besides the always-present dangers of
> practicing statecraft--is precisely in repeating the runup to the
> Iranian revolution, where the theocrats are seen as "one of us"* or
> a neutral actor in the revolutionary consortium but things turn out
> much differently when the revolution obtains power.
Except that unlike Iran in the late 70s, Lebanon is not in a pre- revolutionary situation.