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An open letter to Lebanon's major political players and their respective foreign backers
By Marc J. Sirois
Daily Star staff
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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Dear Sirs (and the odd Madam): Please forgive both my presumptuousness in addressing you and my lack of imagination in employing such a widely abused genre of opinion-shaping, but now that we've all received a dangerous reminder as to how "brinkmanship" got its name, it would be a very good idea to let things settle down, not least so that the dead can be mourned and the wounded healed - and so that their numbers are not needlessly expanded.

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