The End of Lebanon as we Know it
I don’t know how to express the extent of the disaster facing Lebanon, it’s not a fixable problem by any stretch of the imagination, at least I don’t think so. People here and those who are pro this or anti that, continue to argue endlessly about who is to blame, which side is right and angelic and which side is wrong and evil, as if such arguments are going to produce something of value or solve any of the myriad and pressing problems facing us. The world has enough to contend with in the form of a global pandemic and the inequity of vaccine distribution, not to mention some countries using access to vaccines as a political tool to win new friends or punish old enemies. Vaccine diplomacy and the savage rules of capitalism that deny lifesaving vaccines to the poor of the world will come to bite the short sighted leaderships in the posterior of that I am in no doubt. We say, poor India, poor Brazil, and thank God we don’t live in those countries, but science tells us their p...