Ignore Hezbollah, Fight Corruption

It is impossible to have a meaningful debate with Nasrallah. He wants to keep his weapons at any cost. So let it be since we can’t disarm him.

We are helpless against Israel and we are helpless against Hezbollah. So we’ll ignore both Israel and Hezbollah, and move on. It is futile to waste our energy cursing, ranting and whining. All we can try is to contain Israel and Hezbollah as much as possible to avoid tragedies such as the latest one. Both are irresponsible and criminal entities. But what can we do?

The best strategy for the time being is to fight corruption. It should be the number one priority. We have to start somewhere.

As time goes by, as Lebanon and other Arab nations improve their standard of living, slowly people will get disenchanted with armed militias who can provoke wars at any time. Who wants wars when they have a house, a job, a school and a clean hospital? Let the curse of the middle class fall upon all the sects of Lebanon! A curse and a cure.

Now Nasrallah wants to change the government. How arrogant. But a good strategy is to ignore him. Someone should tell him that he can sleep next to his RPG in the cave but please shut up.

Then comes Aoun. As if the circus can afford one more clown (the job market for clowns is oversaturated). He wants a national unity government but at the same time he thinks the national dialogue conference is not working. How can a government work if the dialogue is not? Go figure. Anyway, let’s please him with a bone: a brand new leather seat at the government’s table, and we’ll see what sort of dialogue he has in mind. I can see him already ironing his best suit in preparation for the next presidential campaign. A monkey in the president’s seat… but it’s not a premiere.

As for the international tribunal, we may have to drop this one. Syria assassinated Hariri. May his soul rest in peace. But we got Lebanon in return. We can’t ask for much more, I guess, while the country is heading to nowhere.

Let us forgive the killers of Hariri as we forgave and continue to forgive all those who participated in the previous wars and in the latest war. We forgive Israel, we forgive our neighbors and we forgive ourselves. If we don’t, the alternative is to die.

Eventually, brammertz will render his report public and it will be known who killed Hariri. We don’t need to punish them. The future will punish them. And if Bammertz retains his report secret, we can use it as a leverage to pressure Syria. More important for us than punishing Assad is to draw an official border and to stop Syrian interference in Lebanon. That report is our sword.