Lessons from Lebanon

The Egyptian protesters should learn from the Lebanese opposition.  In 2007, the Lebanese opposition took to a downtown square hoping to extract concession from a lousy government (a tool of the House of Saud) that really conspired against resistance to Israel in Lebanon.  They stayed there for a year or more, I think, and they basically got nothing.  They even resisted early calls to engage in civil disobedience and to take over government buildings.  They stayed in the square doing nothing, which gave the other side enough time to engage in counter-propaganda and sectarian mobilization.  If they used the early momentum to push forward and get out of the damn square, they would have achieved more, much more.