"We will sacrifice ourselves for you, Nasrallah"

I don't hear anyone in Israel shouting "we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Olmert."
Or Sharon, or Golda Meir.

I don't hear anyone in the USA shouting "we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Bush."
Or Kennedy or Washington.

No French citizens sacrificing themselves for Sarkozy, Chirac or De Gaulle.
No Germans sacrificing themselves for Merkel (maybe 60 years ago for Hitler, but we are in 2007, for God's sake!)

Anyone in Venezuela making such generous offerings to Chavez? Unlikely.

So what is this phenomenon in Arabia, especially in Lebanon, where people offer their soul or blood to some leader?

Most of them are not honest and will chicken out and run away at the first sign of trouble. But bizarrely, some of them do take things too literally. Typically they overreact during a political showdown with fellow citizens who offered their souls and bodies to opponent leaders. Things can get nasty, and sometimes they don't waste the chance to fulfill their promise to the darling leader.

In my humble opinion, this sort of chants is not a sign of what the world sees as a modern civilization. No one should be sacrificing their lives for no one else, especially not for crooked leaders. And we all know that ALL politicians are crooked. Note: beware if they are simultaneously political and spiritual leaders. This category tends to be doubly crooked.

QUESTIONS:
Will Nasrallah sacrifice himself for you? Where was he hiding in summer of 2006?
Who did Aoun sacrifice in 1990? Himself or yourself?

MORAL OF THE STORY:
My dear Lebanese people, stop chanting stupid slogans! Get a life.