Feudal Lebanon

I've put up some links to what I feel are the best sites on the web for tracking what is going on in Lebanon. Wretchard at the Belmont Club has written several cogent articles that have spawned a long chain of commentary. Pajamas Media also has a good selection of news and commentary, while the Truth Laid Bear is tracking a wide variety of blogs from the region and elsewhere. Open Lebanon is also a good aggregate of blogs just from Lebanon.

A reflection:

It is interesting to see how the relationships between Hezbollah, the Lebanese national government, Syria, and Iran could almost be termed feudal. You could say that Hezbollah is nominally a vassal of the Lebanese national government, but in reality is a vassal to Syria and Iran. The Lebanese government had been a vassal of Syria, but has supposedly broken the relationship. Now Hezbollah has gone and triggered a war with Israel. Israel demands that Lebanon, Hezbollah's legal liege, restrain them and restore peace. Unfortunately Lebanon doesn't have the will nor capability to force Hezbollah into submission. International diplomacy also seems to be stuck on the concept of the sovereign nation-state, the language to describe other realities long atrophied from disuse.

First Post

Read blogs long enough and you itch to start your own. At least thats how I got started on this.

Don't expect this blog to be updated often.....

Topics will probably be very random.....

Now lets figure out the rest of this blogger thing.