Thursday, 03 August 2006
Jed Babbin: The Siniora Syndrome
Contributed by Bill Faith

In 1973, when a bank robbery turned into a six-day siege, several employees of the Kreditbanken in Stockholm, Sweden were held hostage under threat of death. At some point in those six long days, the psychological pressure so badly twisted some of the hostages' minds that they believed the robbers were protecting them from the police. This emotional pathology became known as the Stockholm Syndrome. Nations have psyches too. And when nations are held captive they can also fall prey to that same emotional disorder. At the national level it deserves another name. Because today's most prominent hostage nation is Lebanon, the emotional disorder should be called the Siniora Syndrome.

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Contributed by Bill Faith on August 3, 2006 at 05:52 PM in Bill Faith, Islamism Delenda Est, Lebanon | Permalink

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