I just found this headline in ASSOCIATED PRESS



Isn't that a funny statement?

Reminds me, myself at the age of 6. "Me ? why me? He pissed on the cat"

The Syrian foreign Minister al Shara toady: "condemns UN resolution demanding Syria withdraw all its forces as "illegal intervention in its internal affairs".


So Lebanon is Syrian internal affair?

In this region all is in a mess, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Palestina...
I do not expect any changes there in the near future....
Basically the same, during decades....

Lebanon is Syrian internal affair? Or UN focus should be Israel and not Syria... or what statements ever... just empty talks, no contents at all....

Stay away from this region, let them do, whatever they want to do....

The region is too strategically important to "stay away from".

Should the UN negate Lebenon as an independent nation and have them give up their seat in the UN?

Oh man, you are so right.
The near future is black.
Syria will deepen its grip in Lebanon by this or that doll government.
The Lebanese that are against Syria will keep on suffering (Christians, Druze and others)
The Iraqi people will loose its one time opportunity to become a democracy.
Iran will keep on arming its self with whatever Europe, China, NK and Russia are willing to sell (including Nukes), and it will become a Nuke states in couple of years.
Saudi Arabia will keep being a growing field for militants.
The Palestinians will keep sending rockets into Israel even after Israel withdraws from Gaza.
Israel as always will choose force to stop it and invade Gaza again, resulting more dead Palestinians.

And on and on and on.

Show me a region in this world, which is not strategically important...is there one?

Should the UN negate Lebenon as an independent nation and have them give up their seat in the UN?

Interesting question!

I think the same about Iraq.....these governments are not acting like governments, more like an administration of a former colony.

The way to vote in the UN to make decisions, is anyway not fitting the reality...

Any little piece of land, called to be a country has ONE vote. The vote of USA is equal to the vote of Djibuti or Guatemala or Ruanda...

There should be voting with scores....higher scores for the big countries, lower score for the small nations....depending on population, economic power and so on..

Stay away....I did not mean that in a political or military sense towards one of the biggest countries in this world...called America.

I said that in the sense of ordinary people, who have nothing to say....
Stay away, there is nothing there, what you could do, to help them....

Stay away, these nations in that region are not known to be thankful to outsiders....
Neither the Arabs, nor the Israelis...

Patagonia, parts of the Sahara, Antarctica for the most part....

I could go on. Strategic I suppose should be defined. I would say strategic being an area whose control has an impact upon many many parts of the globe.



That is political hyperbole speaking. The government that not only criticizes the US, but is recognized internationally by the UN and the Arab League and is up for elections certainly shows a great deal more independence than a colony. You will need to do better than that.



I concede you do have a strong point there.