tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7848627.post3994656777084619756..comments2023-10-24T10:53:16.053-04:00Comments on From the field: Lebanese Stalemate: Phase IIIarnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07277990738351577529noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7848627.post-82240901276051754212008-06-20T17:25:00.000-04:002008-06-20T17:25:00.000-04:00Moubayed's synopsis is generally fine and a fairly...Moubayed's synopsis is generally fine and a fairly balanced and dispassionate one. However, his impulses as a Syrian-regime flack and a whitewasher of Baathist and Hezbollah brutalities--the adjective in Arabic is "moubayyed" btw--seem to have gotten the best of him. His simplistic and wornout cliché "[the Syrians'] readiness to exchange diplomatic relations with Lebanon for the first time Ecce Libanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16702892087800504897noreply@blogger.com