The Daily Star: American Envoy “Hypocrite”

Is there a moral equivalence between US involvement in Lebanon and that of the Syrians and Iranians? Our English daily thinks so

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The “pro Americans” regularly argue that while Syria and Iran send bombs and missiles to and launch wars from Lebanon, the US is simply propping up the legitimate government and helping lebanese institutions get up on their feet.

Lebanon’s Daily Star, the largest English daily, won’t have any of that. The editorial page this morning accuses assistant secretary of state David Welch who’s visiting Lebanon of being a Hypocrite:

Welch — and his counterparts in places like Damascus, Paris, Riyadh and Tehran — should not be able to get away with such naked duplicity. That they do is a measure of just how dysfunctional Lebanon’s own politicians are. It is also a nauseating tribute to the respective propagandistic achievements of those who attach conditions to the dialogue they propose and of those who reject any engagement out of hand.

My personal opinion is that The Daily Star — an English language Daily trying to sell newspapers in an anti-American region — is trying too hard to overcompensate by bashing the English speaking straw man.

But their argument should carry at least some weight, shouldn’t it?