{"id":41,"date":"2005-03-08T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blogtest\/2005\/03\/08\/syria-is-able-to-control-lebanon-wi"},"modified":"2005-03-08T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T13:04:13","slug":"syria-is-able-to-control-lebanon-with-14000-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/08\/syria-is-able-to-control-lebanon-with-14000-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria is able to control Lebanon with 14,000 soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7716'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Syria and Lebanon have been <A href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/meast\/03\/08\/lebanon.syria\/index.html\">in the news lately<\/A>.&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/le.html\">Lebanon has a population of 3.7 million<\/A>.&nbsp; Syria is able to control these people with just 14,000 soldiers, according to the latest articles, and to judge by the tens of thousands of supporters who rallied today in Beirut, Syrian control of Lebanon is just fine with most of the Lebanese.&nbsp; This is a remarkable achievement considering that the U.S.-led coalition&nbsp;has <A href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/ops\/iraq_orbat.htm\">roughly 150,000 troops in Iraq<\/A> for their 25 million people and Iraqis don&#8217;t seem to be turning out in any great numbers to show public support for the foreign soldiers to continuing hanging around.&nbsp; One wonders if we should not have outsourced the Iraq occupation to Syria&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria and Lebanon have been in the news lately.&nbsp; Lebanon has a population of 3.7 million.&nbsp; Syria is able to control these people with just 14,000 soldiers, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Syria is able to control Lebanon with 14,000 soldiers - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/08\/syria-is-able-to-control-lebanon-with-14000-soldiers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Syria is able to control Lebanon with 14,000 soldiers - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Syria and Lebanon have been in the news lately.&nbsp; 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