Robert Fisk : Syria is used to the slings and arrows of friends and enemies - Robert Fisk - Commentators

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  • Comme @angryarab, je me demande ce que prend Robert Fisk. Mais quoi que ce soit, je veux la même chose.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-syria-is-used-to-the-slings-and-arrows-of-friends-and-ene

    With embarrassment, I look back now to that terrible conflict and the cruel words I wrote so many years ago; that one day, after years of Syrian military “peacekeepers” in Lebanon, the Lebanese army may be asked to fulfil the role of “peacekeepers” in Syria. At the time, it was a wicked joke. Not now, perhaps. Indeed, a Lebanese peace force in Syria – where all of Lebanon’s communities (Sunni, Shia, Christian Maronite, Orthodox, Druze, Armenian) are represented – might just be one way of damping down the civil conflict there. A supreme irony, perhaps, after the 1976-2005 Syrian army’s presence in Lebanon. An impossibility, of course. But it shows the nature of political change in the Middle East.