Comments on: Lebanon on hold http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/ Blogging Lebanese politics, business and society since 2005 Wed, 23 May 2012 14:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: this jew says no http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10565 this jew says no Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:50:07 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10565 What happened, Augustus Glub? You blog so infrequently? Did your trustfund dry up? Did you have to get a real job? Or did "they" stop paying you to promote their cedar BS? What happened, Augustus Glub? You blog so infrequently? Did your trustfund dry up? Did you have to get a real job? Or did “they” stop paying you to promote their cedar BS?

]]> By: Happy Arab http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10564 Happy Arab Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:19:35 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10564 No stable and modern countries were built in 2 minutes and without zillions of problems. The years we are living are truly building Lebanon. Without problems we may have built a fake nation that falls at the lightest wind. Now we are discovering all the difficulties of managing a decent nation, and we will find good solutions. Aoun's followers will realize that worshiping an idol is nonsense. Hariri's followers will realize that they cannot have the entire pie. Nasrallah's followers will get sick and tired of religion and wars. Better have the issues now before Lebanon is rebuilt than in 10 years after it has been rebuilt. Once all problems are cleanly solved, we can move forward on a stable ground. No stable and modern countries were built in 2 minutes and without zillions of problems. The years we are living are truly building Lebanon. Without problems we may have built a fake nation that falls at the lightest wind. Now we are discovering all the difficulties of managing a decent nation, and we will find good solutions. Aoun’s followers will realize that worshiping an idol is nonsense. Hariri’s followers will realize that they cannot have the entire pie. Nasrallah’s followers will get sick and tired of religion and wars.

Better have the issues now before Lebanon is rebuilt than in 10 years after it has been rebuilt. Once all problems are cleanly solved, we can move forward on a stable ground.

]]> By: Happy Arab http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10563 Happy Arab Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:13:00 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10563 It's never a waste of time. If you can convince your pro-March 8 neighbor that the March 8 camp doesn't seem to have any good and reasonable plan for the future of Lebanon, and you convert him or her to neutrality, or even better to pro-March 14, which is the spring of Lebanon, then you would have planted one more seed. And seed by seed, the spring of Lebanon can blossom again. In reality, everything that is happening in Lebanon today will only strengthen this country in the future. The problems are very deep and they encourage the Lebanese to thing deeply and eventually they will see the light, whether they are pro-M8 or pro-M14. If you reduce the popularity of Nasrallah and Aoun, then Syria's influence is automatically weakened. And this has been the strategy of M14 politicians so far. It seems to be working. But everything takes time, patience and wisdom. The dictators and fascists will be defeated soon. Their model doesn't stand on its feet for too long. They will self annihilate. Every decision they make is often the wrong one. There is not enough diversity at the top to correct the decisions. It’s never a waste of time.
If you can convince your pro-March 8 neighbor that the March 8 camp doesn’t seem to have any good and reasonable plan for the future of Lebanon, and you convert him or her to neutrality, or even better to pro-March 14, which is the spring of Lebanon, then you would have planted one more seed.

And seed by seed, the spring of Lebanon can blossom again. In reality, everything that is happening in Lebanon today will only strengthen this country in the future. The problems are very deep and they encourage the Lebanese to thing deeply and eventually they will see the light, whether they are pro-M8 or pro-M14.

If you reduce the popularity of Nasrallah and Aoun, then Syria’s influence is automatically weakened. And this has been the strategy of M14 politicians so far. It seems to be working. But everything takes time, patience and wisdom.

The dictators and fascists will be defeated soon. Their model doesn’t stand on its feet for too long. They will self annihilate. Every decision they make is often the wrong one. There is not enough diversity at the top to correct the decisions.

]]> By: sam http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10562 sam Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:10:27 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10562 You're right Karim, there aren't any Arabs to begin with, so I can see how "reputable Arab" wouldn't make any sense. You called it, Adonis said it http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=reform&ID=SP112106 You’re right Karim, there aren’t any Arabs to begin with, so I can see how “reputable Arab” wouldn’t make any sense. You called it, Adonis said it
http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=reform&ID=SP112106

]]> By: Karim http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10561 Karim Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:15:12 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10561 "Call me crazy, Abu Hatem, but personally, I would have ended this sentence at “Arab.”" It wouldn't make much sense, though. “Call me crazy, Abu Hatem, but personally, I would have ended this sentence at “Arab.””

It wouldn’t make much sense, though.

]]> By: sam http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10560 sam Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:19:11 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10560 Abu Hatem: "Honestly there aren’t really any reputable Arab papers" Call me crazy, Abu Hatem, but personally, I would have ended this sentence at "Arab." Abu Hatem: “Honestly there aren’t really any reputable Arab papers”

Call me crazy, Abu Hatem, but personally, I would have ended this sentence at “Arab.”

]]> By: Abu Hatem http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10559 Abu Hatem Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:31:35 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10559 I don't know. Al-Hayat is not a very good source. Honestly there aren't really any reputable Arab papers, most things in the Arab media are complete rubbish. I don’t know. Al-Hayat is not a very good source. Honestly there aren’t really any reputable Arab papers, most things in the Arab media are complete rubbish.

]]> By: Asilah http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10558 Asilah Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:40:28 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10558 "Sorry Anonymous, I just checked, you’re right, there is not Arab Gulf. My bad. It must be the mickey-mouse education we get in the Arab world. So there you have it, I’m coming clean and admitting my wrong. Wouldn’t it be nice if Shiites like you admitted their wrongs every once in a while too? I will not hold my breath" Sam, maybe you've been taught that the Persian Gulf *should* be called the Arab Gulf, as opposed to it actually being called such? ..purely based on where it's located. :) “Sorry Anonymous, I just checked, you’re right, there is not Arab Gulf. My bad. It must be the mickey-mouse education we get in the Arab world. So there you have it, I’m coming clean and admitting my wrong. Wouldn’t it be nice if Shiites like you admitted their wrongs every once in a while too? I will not hold my breath”

Sam, maybe you’ve been taught that the Persian Gulf *should* be called the Arab Gulf, as opposed to it actually being called such? ..purely based on where it’s located. :)

]]> By: sam http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10557 sam Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:30:55 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10557 Sorry Anonymous, I just checked, you're right, there is not Arab Gulf. My bad. It must be the mickey-mouse education we get in the Arab world. So there you have it, I'm coming clean and admitting my wrong. Wouldn't it be nice if Shiites like you admitted their wrongs every once in a while too? I will not hold my breath Sorry Anonymous, I just checked, you’re right, there is not Arab Gulf. My bad. It must be the mickey-mouse education we get in the Arab world. So there you have it, I’m coming clean and admitting my wrong. Wouldn’t it be nice if Shiites like you admitted their wrongs every once in a while too? I will not hold my breath

]]> By: Anonymous http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10556 Anonymous Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:10:47 +0000 http://beirutspring.com/blog/2008/03/09/lebanon-on-hold/#comment-10556 Sam, I read your nonesense, and all I can think is how REMARKABLY dull and banal you people are. Still living in Arab nationalism's fantasy land; must be the fumes from Arabism's carcass. Care to join the rest of us humans in the new millennium once the effects of the fumes subside? You don't have to, really. It's just an idea. Otherwise, be my guest and take another whiff of Arabism if that's your life's ferment. Enjoy your insignificance. Sam, I read your nonesense, and all I can think is how REMARKABLY dull and banal you people are. Still living in Arab nationalism’s fantasy land; must be the fumes from Arabism’s carcass.
Care to join the rest of us humans in the new millennium once the effects of the fumes subside? You don’t have to, really. It’s just an idea. Otherwise, be my guest and take another whiff of Arabism if that’s your life’s ferment. Enjoy your insignificance.

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