A Simple question

Browsing through the Lebanese blogs it seems that the discussion is too much focused on proving that people on the other side are plain stupid and evil and all that nonnsense. We live in a democracy ( a struggling one ) and the question should be: What is constitutional and what will help keep peace and order.
So assuming that you do agree with the above can you please tell me why you think what the the opposition or the pro-government is being unlawful ?
I would love to have a clear answer from both sides.

It is about time Lebanon

This is what I think is happening: Many lebanese agree perfectly with the content of
this video. They are tired of all these war hereos that obvisouly no on (with a brain ) can trust. Not only we can't trust them and their hands are dirty, but also they happen to be losers too. But the problem is when "Jean" goes back home and sees what Nasrallah' men are saying about his community and Geagea, he feels as if he have to stand behind Samir to protect his community. This is the same thing that "Raiif" is doing although again he is perfectly aware of the lebanese problem. This is what is often called in game theory a "prisonner's dilemma". And I suspect we can get rid of this obstacle without some major change, like the one that comes with a revolution, with a complete transformation of the political talk in the country.

Bringing Beirut closer to Ghaza

What was that all about now ?

What are they doing now ? closing roads to put chaos on the streets and bring down a constitutional goverment, all this in the name of democracy and unity ! OK let's not even argue if it is constitutional or not. Which unity are you talking about, can't they see that there are at least (more than ) 50% of the population which does not see things the way they do ?
Words are very easy, so is burning tires. Dividing the lebanese unity that we enjoyed for about few months turned out to be trivial.

About 3 years ago I met a gathering of lebanese guys from "al tayyar" here in my University protesting a lebanese economist that they labeled pro-syrian. We had a sort of an argument, as I got offended by what I thought is their shallow understanding of the lebanese reality. One of them said " Syria, leave lebanon alone and all our problems are solved". I told him mockingly that if Syria left someday a lebanese will try to get it back. It was not a prophecy, it was a rather sarcastic joke about the "lebanese problem" being well... a lebanese problem and nothing more.
Last week I met few of them and I have to admit I was curious to know if they still support Don Quixote ( see picture ) and yes bloody hell they do.

Mass Ignorance in the US

It is surprising that in a country that is so heavily involved in the Middle East people know so little about the geopolitics of this region. What is even more surprising is that this country that allocates so much of its resources to research allocates relatively so little to the Middle East studies.
In fact the policy of the US in the middle east has been quite childish that its outcomes were sometimes quite predictable by the arab world but not so by US analysts.
The current debate is focused basically on whether any change in the number of troops in Iraq can bring about an end to the civil war. Of course some people do not hide their complete uninterest in ending any conflict in the middle east if it is at the cost of sending more troops. But for the people who are still willing not to leave Iraq in a complete mess, I get the feeling, are overlooking an important aspect of a civil war. A civil war can not be policed. It is not something you can crush, because the more you try the more you feed the fire. Or are they still believing their own stories of insurgency or Al-Qaida versus good Iraqis story ? Everybody else is talking about a civil war. In any case the discussion ought to look for a political solution by bringing the parties in Iraq closer to each other. It is a difficult task but the Lebanese war tought us that this is the only way to get lasting peace.