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Source: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/cliffordmay/cm20050310.shtml
Years of Living Dangerously
(townhall.com) Clifford D. May - This week Hizballah - the Lebanese terrorist organization responsible for the murder of more than 250 Americans - struck back, staging the first of what is to be a series of demonstrations meant to counter the Cedar Revolution. With no apparent sense of irony, demonstrators shouted "No to foreign intervention!" while holding up portraits of Bashar Assad. How many of the demonstrators were actually Syrians - a million Syrians reportedly now live in Lebanon - is unclear. And there are plenty of Lebanese who do not vote for Hizballah but fear it and are anxious not to provoke it. With Syrian and Iranian support, Hizballah maintains an armed militia that is more powerful than the Lebanese government's military forces. Hizballah, Assad, and the Iranian theocrats all understand how important Lebanon has become. They foresee that if freedom advances there, other revolutions will follow. By the same token, if freedom can be defeated in the Levant, a chill wind will blow across the Middle East. The writer is president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.