It’s Complicated

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on why talk of disarming Beirut is not practical:

There are weapons in every house […] This is an old file and dealing with it is complicated, takes time and requires wisdom […] There is a wrong methodology being adopted in the country whereby [some parties] make use of an incident to try to tackle a matter that cannot be addressed this way […] Investigations [by the Lebanese Army] are ongoing, we paid compensations for [residents with damaged property], and the issue is over

So if I understand correctly, Sayyed Nasrallah is not against the principle of disarming Beirut, he’s against the approach being taken by politicians to achieve that. But then again, perhaps he just wants the matter to go away by portraying it as too difficult to solve.

What bothers me most is the attitude of “Let’s solve this behind closed doors and not involve any public debate in the matter”, because apparently the public lacks “wisdom”.