More people power!

Are you inspired by the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon?

I don't know how anyone could not be.

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What we witnessed in Lebanon last week when tens of thousands of people – ordinary people of all religious and political backgrounds – rallied in the streets of an occupied police state, waving their country's flag, chanting for freedom and prompting the fall of their puppet government was historic and breathtaking.

The drama in Lebanon is not over.

Though the government resigned without a shot being fired, the Syrian occupying army and an unknown number of intelligence agents from Damascus are still present, defying the demands of the civilized world to leave their neighbors after nearly 30 years of repression, mayhem and murder.

But I think it's just a matter of time before Lebanon is free.

The people can taste it.

They have had enough.

Witnessing the assassination of their former prime minister, Rafik al-Hariri, in their own streets was more than they could bear.

There's no going back for Lebanon. Freedom is the only direction for this little nation from which my grandfather, Joseph Farah, emigrated to the United States in the early part of the last century.

Though it is a country with a recent history of popular elections and self-government, it is also a nation ravaged by civil war, occupied not only by foreign troops, but by thousands of terrorist groups, home to hundreds of thousands of refugees kept in squalor for a generation for political reasons.

And even a country like that can rebound. Even a people who have experienced that kind of chaos cannot be kept down.

Maybe you don't care about Lebanon as passionately as I do. I've spent time there. I've broken bread with ordinary people who had little bread to spare. I've dodged artillery fire directed by Yasser Arafat's military forces in the south when he based his terrorist operation there. I've seen through the bullet-scarred buildings into the heart of the people and the beauty of the land.

But you don't have to have that kind of connection to Lebanon to appreciate what is happening there – the transformation that is taking place.

People are waking up. They are rising up. They are taking matters into their own hands.

A quiet, non-violent, peaceful revolution is under way.

There's a lesson in that for everyone who loves freedom.

If it can happen in Lebanon, it can happen anywhere.

No one likes living under tyranny except the tyrants.

I'm amazed at Americans, the freest people in the whole world, who don't believe they can effect real fundamental change in their own country. They look at the problems of the day and see no way out. They throw their hands up and say, "Nothing can be done. The game is rigged. The system can't be beat."

The people of Lebanon showed us that's not true.

If they can do it, any determined and courageous people can do what the people of Lebanon did.

People power is alive.

We've seen it before. We witnessed it when the Berlin Wall came crumbling down at the hands of people armed only with sledgehammers. We witnessed it when the people of the Soviet Union rallied in the streets behind Boris Yeltsin. We witnessed it when the people of Poland stood up to Russian tanks.

Freedom is in the air.

But the people who take freedom for granted are the least likely to believe it is within their grasp.

I'm inspired by the people of Lebanon. All Americans should be. People all over the world should encourage the Lebanese freedom fighters. We should back their demands to run their own country and their own lives. We should pray for the success of their popular revolution.

And, maybe, we should live like them.