The Beirut Wall Isn't Falling

The article linked above examines some of the premature assertions -- in this case, comparisons to 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall -- made in the media, foreign policy circles and other places about the political situation in Lebanon.

I am all for the expansion of freedom in Lebanon and the expulsion of an occupying force, but it is important that the Lebanese uprising be understood in its immediate context rather than in the context of the at-home political fortunes of the Bush Administration.