Will There be a Lebanon Tomorrow...? Should There Be?
My editor wants results. He works for an international news service, and he doesn’t care for all the trivial minutia of Lebanese politics that seem so important to us over here! So, no real movement on presidential elections and reforms, no stories. No stories, no money. Them are the breaks! So why did I start my blog post on a whinny note? You may well ask. I did that because it cuts to the heart of the matter: nothing productive ever came nor will ever come from a political system engineered to prop up the failed status quo of a country who’s continued existence is and should always have been in question. Now, granted, I just gave you a lot to digest. And I certainly appreciate the angry hornets’ nest of Lebanese nationalists I just stirred up, but the facts speak for themselves. Despite many well-meaning Lebanese attempting to prop up our spirits on the eve of Christmas and New Year with individual initiatives in commerce and culture and tourism, and while I do appreciate all