The Lebanese problem is Aoun forming a close alliance with those who benefit from a foreign intervention, the same one that once forced him into exile. The Lebanese problem is Aoun and Al tayyar always getting along.
The Lebanese problem is Samir Geagea, once sentenced to life, leaving prison to become yet again a Lebanese leader.
The Lebanese problem is that being a war criminal was never sufficient to get at least isolated from political life.
The Lebanese problem is for Hezbullah that what is unconstitutional is not always unjustified.
The Lebanese problem is that there is a limit to the power of the constitution but not to the power of money and arms.
The Lebanese problem is the low expectations people have became to have for themselves; Low expectations to the point of claiming victory when it is only their cities that have been ravaged by fire while their leaders were either on the run or crying for help.
The Lebanese problem will only cease when people will understand it.
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JD,
I agree with these statements but in my opinion, Hezbollah is not as much the client of Iran as other Lebanese movements are the clients of the US and Israel (see The Economist, one of their July issues, during the last war). Also,you may find many problems with the Aoun movement and with Hezbollah but I think, Lebanese politics, being what it is (sectarian), the Hezbollah-Aoun alliance has the potential of changing positively the two movements in a very fundamental way. Read their statement of agreement which you can find on Al-Tayyar. And as I said in one of my previous posts, I am not for Hezbollah alone, and I am not for At-Tayyar alone, but I am for the alliance of both. I think this alliance has the potential of changing the culture of sectarianism in Lebanon. It is also the alliance of the disgruntled, of the poor. Christains feel they lost their say in the sunni-LF equation and here they have it, in my opinion, in the Aoun-Hezbollah equation. Equally, shias never had their say, despite their representativity, in the government.
It is time for Lebanon and Lebanese to realise that nothing good for us comes from the outside and that we have to sit together and to share the pie fairly...
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