Any chance to get the input of 2 or 3 professional economists (non political folks) to comment on the Al-Akhbar article since apparently you have many readers who are really into economics. This could put the name calling and political statements into perspective – namely a useless exercise that never addresses the subject and highlights people’s faults in handling the blog articles. Call it a lesson in “setting standards”.

First of all i think its quite sad that you were called names for just giving your opinion. I also do believe that arguments should be a bit more constructive than just lashing out on each other.

As for accepting responsibility for adding more fuel on fire or whatever it is, I believe every person should be responsible for himself. For example I stand firm by my ideals but my responsibility is not to kill or hurt anyone because of them.

Do you think that you should ease your ideals that you strongly believe in because someone else (pro or opposition) can’t control himself and settles things in violence?
I mean in many western countries, Liberals and Conservatives are deeply divide and wage a harsh daily propaganda against each other, but no one gets killed.

I believe that all of March 14 and 8 blogs’ real responsibility (which you mentioned) is to reject violence completely and try to make people realize that such thing is totally unacceptable for any situation that arises. In the meanwhile any one can state what he believes what is wrong and what is right.

Unfortunately we Muslims still stand far from such norm of thinking. (Both in Europe and Middle east).

You didn’t “ask” any question of Mustapha. Let’s be clear here. Your first comment was to criticize him for pointing out how stupid the Al Akhbar article was. That is not a QUESTION. Nice try. Now you’re all pretending like you’re the poor victim who’s being attacked for asking a question.

Truth is, you don’t seem to understand the need for free media, who’s job it is to poke around, question the narratives that are put to us by “those in power” and expose the lies and distortions.

Without people questioning, we’d still think the earth was flat. It’s a damn good thing there are people out there who are willing to question things, and lay them out there for us to reach our own conclusions by fostering debate or else we’d still be living in the dark ages. Come to think of it, there’s a reason why Lebanon is still in the dark ages, and it’s because there are so many people like you, who are unwilling to question anything, and who just want things to be fed to them by their church, mosque, zaim or village elder (village idiot is more like it).

To those I seem to have offended, it’s only because you don’t understand what I was asking. And for that I’m sorry. Hopefully one day you’ll be able to see in colours other than black and white (actually, maybe black and white is better than colours at the moment ).

Mustafa, I’m disappointed in you, but I really shouldn’t be. Eventually I guess it’s too exhausting to think so hard about the situation in Lebanon, without having to also analyze your own actions as well.

God bless you all and hopefully we can soon live in peace together in Lebanon without getting angry at each other, or calling each other names.

As far as backing from IRAN or USA, it depends on the eye of the beholder. Why do I or you get the right to want USA, and they don’t have the right to want IRAN? Who gave us more rights then them?

I personally have nothing against IRAN since they actually are the only country from your list who never bombed or occupied Lebanon.

On the other hand I cannot blame you or anyone else for hating Syria.

and to answer your stupid question, this article might contribute to the divide when idiots like you are reading it… but hopefully it can enlighten idiots like you to really quantify the shit of M8..