A beautiful tribute to a great man! Least we could do for him! I know wled Ahbeh (according to Ka7tani) won't like it
This is the typical oriental attitude of what we call a « Personality Cult » regardless of the intrinsic value of the person... Bachir, Samir, Aoun, Nasrallah, Berri, Joumblat, Abdel Nasser, Saddam etc... Have/had more worshipers than followers, and this is a typical Arab mindset.
BTW the West is not far from this either, especially after witnessing the millions of Americans who believed the Trump conspiracy theory about the supposed rigged elections and ended up rioting the Capitol.
Aoun was never a political genius or a visionary man. In 1989/1990 he was a charismatic leader who used to say what most people in the christian street wanted to hear: Building a strong state, freeing Lebanon from the Syrian occupation, and weapons only in the hand of the national army.
Christians back then were fed up from the Syrians and also from the behavior of the Lebanese-Forces within the Christian’s region.
Yet, he launched a war that was not planned at all. He didn’t have the means to win it, neither militarily nor politically. He just started shelling the Syrians for months, who responded with 10 times more firepower turning the Christian regions into ashes.
Less than 2 years later it ended up with the invasion of the last free area in Lebanon and the biggest exodus of Christians since the mass emigration of the early 20 century when we were ruled by the Ottoman empire. More than half of those Christians never returned.
Today we are witnessing another massive emigration with educated Christians being a big part of it. I wonder really how many Christians will remain in Lebanon in 1-2 years from now.
Again there are no plans, no road map, no vision for the future. Just stubbornness, blocking every initiative, and following à wait and see policy hoping for a miracle ; a wait and see policy that Lebanon cannot afford at all in its current situation.
When countries like Greece, Cyprus, Egypt went through economical problems, they launched an emergency crisis plan and were working day and night to remove their country from the mess it went in.
Here after more than one year of the financial collapse of the country and 6 months after the Beirut blast, you have our leaders pouting and sulking, each in his corner with no concern except covering the beirut blast inquiry by removing the juge in charge, and seeking how to get silly little gains in the government.
In the mean time the dollar is at 10.000 LBP, The BDL is not capable to subsidized the market anymore, insecurity is skyrocketing and people are leaving the country by thousands...
To answer every problem with “they didn’t let us work” or worse: “They forced us to sign” like the dude did yesterday on MTV, is extremely childish, and only beleivable by worshipers and true believers.
Personally I think this country will remain on its downhill path till at least the next parliamentary and presidential elections. No new government will be formed in 2021.
It’s already too late for people who are in their 40ies and 50ies, they lives and career are lost. Hopefully the new generation from All sects will more wisely chose its leaders, otherwise we will remain for another 50 years in misery. After all 50 years have passed since the civil war and we are still doing the same behaviors.
