Lebanese frustration Kuwaiti-Style.

Why is the Syrian regime suddenly the victim? What’s wrong with the European and Arab public opinion?

Russia just announced that it is against imposing sanctions against Syria (and of all places, it did so in Israel). Fine, but did it have to make its position public? now we can’t even use the threat of sanctions. Why would the Syrians now cooperate? What would force them to stop shooting our engineers who set out to demarcate our common borders?

People outside of Lebanon are speaking of the presumption of innocence. Everyone is speaking of a politicized report, everyone is reducing this to a silly conspiracy being cooked up in the pentagon by Neoconservatives.

Everyone outside of Lebanon, that is.

We, inside of Lebanon, all know deep inside that it’s the Syrians. We all know how they still scare our politicians and our journalists, we all know how they bomb our neighborhoods, we all know the scale of the contempt they have for our country.

But why do you care?

We can rot in hell as far as Putin and Joshua Landis are concerned..

The Lebanese authorities are targeting various Syria-loyal factions at the same time. Is this the sensible thing to do or are we outstretching ourselves?

Two News bits caught my attention this morning. One tells of the Lebanese authorities’ efforts to reclaim property forcefully occupied by the extremist pro-Syrian Ahbash faction, and one of a large-scale operation of the Lebanese Army to surround a Palestinian camp in a bid to capture the killers of a Lebanese Army surveyor.

What I’m really concerned about is this: how much control do we have over our law-enforcement and security bodies? Can we really go about cutting all the tentacles of the previous Syrian regime at the same time? What about the Syrian allies in Lebanon? Don’t they have followers in the Army and other government bodies over which they have considerable influence? Wouldn’t it be better if we take on the powerful Syrian remnants one by one?

What’s your take on this?

An alternative theory on why Aoun should be the President.

I received a comment on a previous post that deserves some exposure. The reader thinks that we got it all wrong on Aoun’s entitlement to the presidency. Here’s what (s)he had to say:

Aoun is not saying that since Shia’s picked Nabih Berri, he should be picked because he represents Christians, this is a bunch of propaganda trying to make the FPM seem sectarian at heart.

The fact of the matter is, that after the Parliamentary elections, three powers emerged: The FM and their allies, Hezbollah-Berri alliance, and the FPM and their allies. Hezbollah-Berri got the speaker of Parliament, the FM got the position of Prime Minister, and so therefore naturally, the FPM should get the last remaining spot, which is the Presidency. If the FM and their sidekicks don’t want to give them the Presidency, then let them take it, but give the FPM the position of Prime Minster. So basically, it is not about the Presidency itself, but rather that all three major powers in the country should have one of the three top positions.

To not give the FPM one of the top positions would be to ignore the desires and opinions of many Lebanese, and would only concentrate more power in the hands of the FM and their allies, which would be majorly over represented if they got the Presidency spot as well.

What do you think about this?

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