"To some silly propagandists in the international community who ask for a settlement with the Syrian regime we say: The free Lebanese people would not have mercy on those who come in the name of democracy to prostrate to the Damascus tyrant," Jumblatt wrote in the PSP weekly mouthpiece, al-Anbaa.
"Regardless of changes in regional and international circumstances, Lebanon will not rest assured as long as this junta continues to rule Damascus," he added.
Lebanese-Syrian relations, according to Jumblatt, would not be normalized "so long as this wisp of dictators continued to rule Syria … and direct its armed gangs and remnants of mini-parties in Lebanon," he added.
Jumblatt recalled that "we have repeatedly stressed that reaching a settlement is one thing and succumbing is a totally different issue. A settlement is based on a valiant decision … and succumbing is none of our values."
"We haven't surrendered in the past, we don't surrender now and we would not surrender in the future," Jumblatt concluded.
He also criticized Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun for practicing "organized agitation against the government" of premier Fouad Siniora.
Sources: Naharnet