The Strategy So Far

The opposition is getting harder to keep track of, but from what Jumblat said from Egypt yesterday, and from the noises Cardinal Sfeir is making, their strategy boils down to a few points:

- Allow Karami to form a government to oversee the elections; this government should be whatever karami choses as long as it has a shred of decency (some objectionable people like assem kanso, Nasser kandil and we’am wahab should not be part of it)

-Wait till after the elections for lahhoud to resign

-Consider Hezbollah an internal issue that should not be discussed with outside powers, and that should be solved internally. The Americans seem to be openminded about it, Albalad newspaper reported that a state department official declared that Hezbollah's weapons is an internal Lebanese issue

-wait for the comming UN report to see the effects it's going to have

I think this is a sensible strategy, especially the Hezbollah one, they seem to have found a middle ground on that. let’s see how it unfolds.