I honestly don’t believe in any Arab state or any Arab leader as they are all shit that come in difefrent shapes and styles!

As for Seniora, it’s much better if he go finds a nanny shoulders to cry on!

This is all rediculous.

Anyway, i don’t get what are you trying to argue with me over here, that Syria is not the strongest neighboring economically (between Lebanon, occupied Iraq, Occupied Palestine, Jordan and Syria)? or that we should not be taking it into consideration and take the gulf states as a prospective economical partner and worry about their friendship more than our relation with Syria?

As for the economical status in Syria, my very basic criteria is judging what a country economy is based on; unless you think basing a country economy on agriculture, industry, and energy is not an indication to success ( bare in mind the tourism sector success) i dont know what is; maybe virtual real estate investments business built up by foreign workers to generate profit to international companies and capital fund directed out side the country?

btw, i had to go and check syria gdp to double check their state in case i missed any recent economical collapse but so far, economically speaking they are still under the same political pressure and they still have a self sufficient economy and export to the world products of all kinds .. i miss reading information like this, i only read importing everything into Jordan :s that sucks big time knowing that i come from a very rich land that once was the world bread basket.

Jordan minimal attendance in this summit is just another expected mis-calculated step, tracing the officials headlines about Jordan representation and the change that took daily from full higher level of representation to its minimal the night of the summit proves that there is no intent to deliver what ever message there is to deliver but rather a very lame i follow those leaders in the region choice. As its obvious, when it comes to arabs forces of power jordan still has no real weight, out of the nine countries only KSA and Egypt attendance matters. We on the other hand are still driven away with this U.S supporters and best friends role on the expense of protecting our sovereignty on our lands even against our best needs, having good relations with the most powerful and economically successful (and btw recently technologically ) neighboring country.

probably because they’ve had their cell phones turned off for the past 8 years

i am not gonna debate whether syria meddles in lebanon or not because i agree that it does .. but was that really the message .. was that really why some arab countries didnt attend .. were they really trying to send a message .. or were they just following US orders?

personally i think its the second option ..

and by the way a lot of countries meddle in lebanons affairs its not just syria .. putting aside the western powers such as US and france, we can also mention saudi arabia ..
and what about israel? remember how they launced an all out offensive on lebanon a couple of years ago .. i dont see arabs too upset about that .. why arent they sending any messages to israel?