Who Needs Comic Book Superheroes...

...when you've got 1.4 million real-live ones? Dig the historic scene today in Beirut. (The guys at AKComics should publish a comic book on this outpouring.)

The Hezbollah (literally, "Party of God") rally last week had echoes of the reactionary pro-segregation crowds that descended on Oxford, Missisissippi, in 1962. Upset at President Kennedy's forced integration of the Ole Miss campus, tens of thousands of angry whites poured into the small college town to rally against the federal imposition of civil rights legislation. The charged protests were immortalized in Bob Dylan's "Oxford Town," and pickup trucks across the state were soon sporting the bumper sticker: "Federally-Occupied Mississippi."

But for the massive crowds of white segregationists, it was the beginning of the end. A sort of last hurrah. Similarly, when you have a group funded by Iran (i.e., Hezbollah) holding a gender-segregated rally with a blatantly contradictory message ("No to Foreign Intervention" and "Thank you, Syria") you are not the wave of the future.

At least for today, the wave of the future is the "Human Tsunami" overflowing Beirut.  Mabruk, guys and gals! Bien fait!

Comments

[Dylan]

"Oxford town, Oxford town, everybody's got their heads bowed down..."

[The sandmonkey]

Dude, the Hezbollah people just got the asswhuppin they deserved. They wanted to flex muscle using syrian workers pretending to be pro Syrian lebanese supporters and they thought they could get away with it. They again underestimated the spirit of the true lebanese people who put Lebanon first and Syria second. As Thomas Friedman said, the ones supporting Syria will always feel uncomfortable cause they can always be asked: why exactly are you holding up the picture of the syrian president? And if you are so against foriegn interference, why are you ok with the syrian kind?

They don't like that line of questioning. They really don't!

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