I'm sure that there is a lot I could find fault wiht in Ol' Vic's latest column, but one part of the article in particular seems particularly tone-deaf.
While discussing Syria (which he more or less says is responsbile, along with Iran, for whatever failures exist in Iraq), he says:
[Syria]'s assassination of Mr. Hariri slowed the entire Lebanese reform movement.
Excuse me?
The assassination of Hariri is what precipitated the removal of Syrian troops from Lebanon. That's a pretty big reform that was accelerrated by the assaassination of Mr. Hariri. One could argue that the assassination was intended to slow the reform movement (assuming that it was Syria), but if so, it hardly achieved its goal.
That is all.
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