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Hassan Fattah of the NYTimes gets the zibde of the Lebanon story. Washington is its own worst enemy. It is making compromise, the element most important to democracy, impossible in Lebanon through its interventions. It is taking sides not supporting democracy. U.S. Backs Free Elections, Only to See Allies Lose (Read the whole story. This […]