Laying Blame

Excuse me for being blunt, but this is unbelievable crap:

"With attack after attack taking out elements of Lebanon's anti-Syrian establishment, it is only natural for immediate shock and anger to point the finger at Damascus. But with Lebanon refusing to budge as proxy battle field for the region's numerous battles, there is equal weight in the Syrian counter-argument, that elements out to discredit the Asad regime are at play in Lebanon's continuing nightmare, clearly the worst since the end of the long civil war."

The people who keep peddling the "they're killing their own to discredit Syria!" line rarely give the impression that they're arguing in earnest, so it's hard to summon the energy to hit back at them. I suppose they continue with it because they're called on to say something, and it's not pleasant to admit that one is allied with murderers. Three March 14 MPs have been killed in the past year. Eid was the second ISF investigator to be targeted -- an attack in September 2006 wounded Col. Samir Shehadeh, who was also involved in the Hariri investigation. When the bomb exploded next to Captain Eid, which is the more logical conclusion: that the attack is part of some nefarious public relations scheme, or that someone wants him dead?