People Power

In the mid-1980s in the Phillippines, Corazon Aquino's "people power" revolution swept dictator Ferdinand Marcos out of power and into exile, despite a long history of U.S. support for Marcos. Now the same thing is happening in Lebanon, as hundreds of thousands of protestors in "martyr's square" yesterday forced the resignation of the Syrian-controlled president. Managing A Mideast Revolution [washingtonpost.com]. It's already been dubbed the "Cedar Revolution," for Lebanon's famous forests.

This is a great time to be a democrat (small "d"). Here's hoping that the Bush Administration lives up to the rhetoric from Dubya's second inaugural address and doesn't leave these democractic middle eastern revolutionaries twisting slowly in the wind like Bush senior did to the Kurds in March 1991, after encouraging them to revolt against Saddam Hussein.

 Posted by glenn