The Indictment Is Only The Beginning

Michael Young reminds the hot-blooded Lebanese of a very important truth: Legal processes take time and are boring:

Once Bellemare issues indictments, the defense will have several months to prepare a rebuttal. The initial passion among the Lebanese for and against his decisions will be lost in a haze of procedural jousting between prosecution and defense. Yet it is then that we will be able to say whether Bellemare’s efforts might bear fruit or not […] We Lebanese should step back and take a deep breath. Politics is one thing, but an accomplished judicial course of action is something entirely different. Our tendency has been to confuse the two, and we may end up, not for the first time, deeply disappointed.

We will have to find ourselves a different topic for the soap opera that is the Lebanese news cycle..