Syria’s President: Lebanese Majority Follows Israel

The Syrian president re-iterates his Bush-esque position: You’re either with us, or with Israel.

In an interview with a Tunisian newspapers, Assad effectively labeled half the Lebanese people as traitors:

“there have always been in Lebanon forces attached to the Arab (identity). But there are also forces which, since Lebanon’s creation and even before, have tied their fate to the West, thus putting (their country) in danger.”

He then repeated his trademark threats:

“Lebanon was stable when it followed the Arab line, supported the resistance and opposed itself to Israel.”

Allow me to translate that into English:

We will keep bombing and killing the Lebanese and their elected leader until they learn to submit to our will. If that happens, will then give them something that looks like “stability” in which they do as we tell them to do.