Lebanon Delays Talks on New Government

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/world/middleeast/18lebanon.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=lebanese%20leader%20delays%20talks%20on%20new%20government&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:07 PM
Subject: re: Lebanon Delays Talks on New Government
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  If Hassan Nasrullah has the power he claims--to determine who will be and who will not be arrested in Lebanon--then the government has already fallen. No legitimate government can tolerate such impunity in a private citizen. The United States survived the challenge of Shays' rebellion, but only after putting it down forcefully. Beirut will have to decide whether Hezbullah is a threat to the Lebanese state, or has become the Lebanese state.  They can't both wield this power.

Barry Levine