Where is Michael Young/Where is Hizbullah?
1) Kudos to Anthony Shadid’s reporting – he is indeed one of the few in the major US media outlets worth reading for the facts themselves and the analysis rather than the meta-meaning of the spin.
2) Having just come out of a meeting with Hizbullah officials, there is little doubt in my mind that the SMART play would be for Sayyid Nasrallah to endorse the Tunisian “process” NOW – to name it, embrace it etc (JASMINE REVOLUTION? The same mistake as Bush’s Cedar Rev? I wonder here strategicialy?) AS BREAKING THE sectarian attempts (which happened often in Tunisia) to split the Resistance Axis from the Sunni “street.” I am not sure Hizbullah has the courage to do this right now…. especially given the domestic choices it now faces as a result of its decisions over the past few days. Publicly highlighting the toppling, linking it to the toppling project in Lebanon and CALLING FOR A TRIBUNAL FOR THE SUNNI LEADER in Tunisia….. who has the blood of tens of thousands on his hands unlike the Hariri murder…. well this may take more moxy than Hizbullah has at this point.
Today I was reminded face to face – Hizbullah is a radical-conservative movement….. with all that this means.
3) I am really looking forward to Mike Young’s column coming up… What does the Neo-LiberalCon Consensus have to say about Tunisia?
UPDATE – after Elias’s comment here.
