The Cedar Revolution

Tent city rises to pressure Syria:

BEIRUT -- Presidents and diplomats piled on the pressure for Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon yesterday, but for the hard-line Ba'athist leaders in Damascus, the most worrisome pressure may be coming from a scruffy tent camp near the Beirut waterfront.

In a land where civil war is endemic but political protest is almost unknown, long-feuding Muslims, Christians and Druze are camping out just blocks from the parliament saying they will not leave until either Syrian troops leave their country or the government falls.

Inspired by December's Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the Rose Revolution in Georgia a year earlier, the protesters have begun to call their action the "Cedar Revolt" in a tribute to the tree that adorns the Lebanese flag.

Thoughts on the Cedar Revolution:

Surprisingly, the Cedar Revolution is receiving less press coverage than Ukraine's Orange Revolution. Maybe it is because Arabs and Persians don't deserve democracy?

Both links via Glenn. I haven't been linking to enough stuff about what's going on in Lebanon, and I feel like I'm not getting enough information about it either. What's going on is critically important.

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