After years and years of not recognizing Lebanon as a sovereign state but finally appointing an ambassador and stalling in terms of sending him to Beirut to actually do his duties, Syria has finally ordered its' ambassador to go to Beirut and start his job.
He crossed the Syrio-Lebanese border yesterday headed towards Beirut.
Timing anyone??
IS there any hidden agenda in the timing?
I personally would like to think not. Sometimes I get the feeling that the Syrians do these kinds of things just to fuel their esoteric fires more and more. Kinda adds to the whole dark enigma state type of thing.
And since this IS the middle east, it follows then that there is a conspiracy theory behind everything. It just remains to be seen what that theory is.
Is he coming to interfere with the elections?
Is he so sure of the results (that they are going to be favorable towards march 8th) that he feels comfortable coming before and not after?
Does he feel that he is going to be right at home with the new parliament that is going to emerge that he feels comfy to come already?
Is the pressure mounting on Syria by the Americans and the Europeans?
And so on and so forth . . .
Of course, the regular normal explanation would be that he was just recently appointed and is just now able to take on the duties of the office to which he was assigned.
But that is too boring, and so not middle east.
BG
3 years ago
So true.
ReplyDeleteBut honestly, all these statements "[insert foreign country here] are meddling in the elections" are quite pointless in my opinion. I mean, everyone knows who they are going to vote for even before elections are announced. We don't have "swing voters" and no one is voting for a party's program rather than what the part represents. If we compare economic positions (I have a soft spot for Economics), FPM and Future are very much aligned whereas Jumblatt and Hezbollah have common economic plans.