Behold these concrete actions:
Lebanon moved to address the widespread possession and use of weapons in the country Wednesday after Shiite and Sunni groups used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in a deadly, hours-long street battle. [...] The Information Ministry announced the formation of a committee headed by Prime Minister Saad Hariri to come up with proposals for confronting the problem
Read this one more time: A committee will eventually come up with a proposal to eventually confront (not solve) the problem. You know what this is right? We’re been Marriammed again.
Hello, my name is Mustapha and I've been blogging about Lebanese society, business and politics since February 2005.
Solving a weapons problem in Lebanon ? Well, easy : you have to kill them all.
What ? Why are you staring at me that way ??
What I just said make totally sence since no one in Lebanon will give his weapon without a fight.
Logique non ?
ps : Posted about that clash too today.
People don’t need weapons to kill:
http://observers.france24.com/fr/content/20100825-adolescents-lynches-sous-yeux-police-pakistan
French – shocking images.
Arms don’t kill. People do.
I know it’s off topic. You already know my on topic comment would be about Hezbollah, so let’s skip it.
I know you won’t believe me, but older Israelis, who knew Lebanon before the civil war, often talk about how beautiful it was and their profound regret for the changes that took place since. You live on an erupting volcano, and we are just down the slope…