The latest events in Lebanon have proven that Hezbollah rules undeniably the country. Whether it is by proxy for Iran and/or Syria is besides the point. What is critical though is that the Lebanese Army could not protect its citizens and was watching on the sidelines as the Hezbollah fighters were doing their dirty jobs.
In a country where the average citizen has no protection whatsoever from the National Army and its Security forces, then the country ceases to exist. It is along those lines that I proclaim Lebanon as a country on paper only.
I don't care if the unity of the Army and its various confessions are at risk. We need protection. If the Army's constitution is so fragmentary that it can never guarantee itself as a protector for its citizens, then it better ceases to exist and declare that it is really a useless body that cannot fulfill the function it was assigned to undertake.
Yes, Hezbollah is at fault and would have confronted the Army. But by having the Army behave as a sitting duck, Hezbollah is getting stronger and motivated to repeat its massacre and humiliation of Lebanon.
General Suleiman has proven that if he were to assume the presidency, he would be yet another Emile Lahoud or another Rachid Karameh with a motto of "Never Use the Army" and "Let the Citizen Pay the Price". Being a soldier and officer in the Army comes with its own risk....except of course if you're in the Lebanese Army in which case you can have your cake and eat it too.
I so much relate to Kurt Vonnegut and feel as "A Man Without a Country".
3 comments:
Well said. The Army is getting nothing done. Just being a simple spectator.
Time and again, our pols and army fail at the most basic of state duties.
If the 75/76 traitor Karami episode had never occurred MAYBE they would have an excuse.
Tffhhh...
The army is just the image of the lebanese society, fragmented and sectarian. It cannot perform any serious function.
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