You and I like most of us are on the same side so don’t take it too personal. My response is addressed to all us.
We all are desperate for an exit from the black hole we’re in. But we need to be objective and educated about what we want and how to get it.
Yet you are angry because Adib‘s covert government that was being engineered by Hariri, Saniora, Mikati and co was torpedoed by Hezbollah. Do you realize if it was not for Hezbollah, Berri would have joined Hariri, Saniora, Mikati and co as well?
Do you also realize if Hezbollah was not the one that torpedoed Adib’s mission GMA was going to be the one to torpedo it?
Would you have the same attitude towards GMA today if he was the one who torpedoed Macron initiative? And, for a very good reason I might add.
Macron knows real well who Hariri, Saniora, Mikati and co are but did not hesitate letting them hijack the mission and insulting the President and his office by ignoring him for two weeks while sleeping with Hariri, Saniora, Mikati and co and planning on pushing GMA in the corner on the last minute.
Do you really believe Macron’s priority is to bring our looted money back from those thieves who were supposed to be forming that very same government we are counting on?
I don’t know about you but the first minute I saw Hariri, Saniora and Mikati meeting with Adib, I got so turned off I could not see him succeed and thank God he’s out!
Macron on the other hand proved to be a politician not Santa Clause. His last speech that showed his weakness to satisfy the US has discredited him. He is desperate for his mission to succeed for his own interests in the region but the fact that he used the Killon Ya3ni Killon concept in blaming everyone even mentioning GMA as if GMA was not doing everything in his power to save day. Macron proved he is weak in front of the Americans and is stuck in the same hole Lebanon is in.
What happened in the past few days is a reminder to all of us that the International community is not a charitable organization. Nothing is free unless you’re defenseless, then our lunch becomes free to them not to us...
Speaking of which, let’s give credit where credit is due: Why is the US mediating between Lebanon and Israel now as we speak about our southern borders and maritime rights? Are they doing it to please Hariri, Saniora, Mikati and company? Or, may be to please Geagea, Frangieh and the Gemayels? Or, maybe from fear of our LAF and our President (with all due respect)?
Could the stubbornness of the resistance have something to do with it?
Viral, I consider you to be among the few reasonable people in here whose allegiance to HA does'nt necessarily cloud his judgment on issues related directly to the party. I'm starting to be fond of the "mnel ekhir" expression, so I'll use it in my reply.
Mnel Ekhir.
We could be rushing towards a civil war trap and I'm not repeating this overused cliché to overdramatize; All the pre-requisites are present, and so do all signs point there. One higher caliber assassination, one "wrong" decision or move could be all it takes to set off the avalanche. Syria is calming down, Lebanon next doesn't sound that farfetched.
Whether you find it unfair or not, Lebanon will continue to be considered a rogue state by those who hold its economical neck, for as long as it is indirectly run by an armed militia operating solo outside the state's control, however hollow this "state" concept sounds in your ear. This is not to put all the blame on only this specific factor, but it is a major one in the process.
Looming sanctions, the accelerating economic collapse, the corruption issues, and now Macron's failed attempt to find an opening for international aid, all leading to hopelessness and despair, have further shrank people's tolerance marginals for the armed militia, that's an undeniable fact. Here I have FPM's people in mind in particular, because I suspect you care a little more about them. This isn't a quick and sudden shift of heart and mind, it's been a work in progress for few years now in the stagnated situation. The nuking of Beirut's port came to push it to the surface, consider it the sha3ra elleh qasamit dahr el ba3eer.
Whether the blast was an act of 7ameer welding or calculated hit by whokowswho is simply irrelevant at this stage. In most those people's minds and with the general background picture of the ongoing economical meltdown caused by years of mismanagement and corruption now also very much associated with the Berri/HA tango, the blame for the blast is now mostly on HA because, in its current outside-the-state's-control state, it represents the epitome of our failure to function as a normal country. That's all to it, analyze no more, what we've become and where we are today is no more a matter of reasoning. It's now in the hearts before the minds of people, even if the minds knew it from start but chose to dismiss it for various vain hopes and reasons.
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