Reply #35: Juan Cole has it too.

[seafan]

A quote from his blog a little over one hour ago:

Futur television satellite news is reporting that the Lebanese government has resigned. For the last few days, I was watching the crowds assembled at Martyrs' Square in Beirut (a place significant in the anticolonial struggle against the French), and noted the ineffectual attempt of Interior Minister Suleiman Frangieh to forbid the protests.

I just saw a speaker at the protests shout that the people are more powerful than the government, with everyone joyous at the fall of the government......

http://www.juancole.com/


Still trying to get a sense of what's happening there, but that statement just sprang off the page.

Now if America will seize on that sentiment.