These sanctions are not related to corruption in running the public money, though it's a crime of course, but rather to sponsoring terrorism. So how are the people you mentioned engaging and igniting armed conflicts around the region?
That said, how did you manage to pick those ones specifically, excluding any Christian name, except the pun intended with Bassil's name. It seems there is only corrupt leaders among Muslims. Of course you didn't mean it this way, and I'm not trying to prove anything sectarian, God forbid! (no pun intended), but it's notable that the names that come to your mind are FPM's political opponents, which would leave us with one explanation, that the unconscious load of your Lebanese memory is leaving its weight sensed through "the slip of the tongue."
Back to the sanctions and the reason why would some Lebanese see them as constructive, I would like to note here my friend that Adolf Hitler vilified the corrupt Weimar Republic to establish Nazism.
ma badda this deep analysis my friend. It's a lot less complicated than you make it. Who could be those "accused of corruption" the US is considering to sanction? is what I asked.
It's all in the initially bolded statement I replied to, which, in the context, stuck out. The article was about the US sanctioning additional Hizballah business affiliates. Hizbollah is considered a terrorist organization by the US. That's what the main story is about. But then you get a sudden expansion of the theme to include "accused of corruption" politicians, hence my question:
- How shall Americans decide who is the "accused of corruption" to be sanctioned, when the first-hand concerned, the Lebanese government itself, doesn't have an official list of these?
Or shall the Americans set up own list, 3ala zaw2oun? In that case based on what?
The most reasonable answer to that would be: based on solid evidence in the form of documents and reports.
Now those cunning Americans may have such documents and reports, but they also could manufacture them on demand for political reasons. After all these lists need not be explained nor motivated to anyone.
Which leaves you with the second obvious option, common sense, what you saw in my reply and the list of names I presented. These are the names of the political top predators of our various communities, those who were in charge for 15 years after the war was ended and we woke up to find out we are hugely indebted. And most Lebanese, along with common sense, bear witness to that fact.These people had both the opportunity and the intention. Can you deny that one of those on my list is above the suspicion of potentially being "accused of theft", hence perfectly fit to be on that list?
Can you in the same breath with a clean conscience claim Aoun of the FPM belongs to that list too? You could accuse him of much, but definitely not of the 40 billions of unaccounted for national debt we were left with at the time of of 2esteshhad el mar7oum.
Did you see me put Salim el Hoss name on that list?
You get far with only common sense.
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, I still have hope on you and your aspiration for knighthood.???
