Posted on 11/11/2019 5:28:07 AM PST by Kaslin
I returned to the U.S. from Lebanon less than one month before the October protests began in Beirut and started spreading throughout its cities and towns, shaking the foundations of a regime that spent 30 years mired in corruption and backing Hezb’allah. During my field trip to my ancestral land, mandated by the American Mideast Coalition for Democracy (AMCD), I met with students, politicians, journalists, former military, religious leaders and civil society activists. I also met with ordinary people in different places. The three major issues of discontent among all people I met were:
The Protests: “All means All”
On October 18, tens of thousands of Lebanese filled the public squares in Beirut in anti-government demonstrations accusing the leaders of “stealing the people’s money,” and of abandoning the poor to their fate. At first, the demands were socioeconomic, but then the protests got larger and the official goal became bringing down the entire system: the Saad Hariri cabinet, Michel Aoun’s Presidency, and Nabih Berri’s Parliament -- all accused of being behind the mass corruption that the country has been suffering under for decades.
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How is it any of our business? Let Israel and Turkey work it out.
Send them a copy of our Declaration and Constitution. Let them figure it out.
Staying out of it.
L
Thanks for letting us know what is going on over there.
Not our circus. Not our monkeys.
It is not worth a penny of taxpayers’ cash or the welfare of any of our military to get involved in their uncivil society and its woes.
80% Christian at one time. Make it the safe zone Trump promised.
I really don't know how to react to that... To me, this person comes off like the usual liberal bleeding heart looking for just another worthless cause to waste money and good American lives on...
The world gives the money and the Christians fight for their freedom.
How Should the U.S. Respond to the Lebanon Protests?
It’s never:
Should the U.S. Respond to the Lebanon Protests?
“ordinary people”, in this context, means (to me) the very people that the media deliberately ignore. The categories the author lists before this phrase are the people used by media to portray what “ordinary people” are thinking - right or wrong (usually wrong).
A quiet conversation over coffee in a nameless cafe can often give more insight into the mind of “ordinary people” than a thousand interviews with self-promoting “elite” that use their access to media as a cudgel to shape (not measure) public opinion.
Just my $.02.
Why do I care about the this crap. The bushes cured me of giving a damn. let’s just keep building bigger and better weapons
Read the Book” The Absent Superpower” by Peter Zeihan. We are in the first stages of his story with Trump the likely captain of this new world view. Zeihan sees the world in geographical and demographic terms. If he’s right we’re in good shape and the rest of the world is in trouble, and we don’t need to respond to every emergency and won’t.
“Make it the safe zone Trump promised.”
We think you ought to get over there and get it done.
The rest of us don’t care and are disinclined from spending a single penny or drop of blood.
How about.......... nothing.
“Make it the safe zone Trump promised.”
After you.
L
How about we mind our own business. Wish them well and let them settle it amongst themselves.
Hi.
The U.S. should respond like this: Hey Macron! Check out your southern flank. The Lebanese could use some assistance.
Thanks.
Uncle Sam
5.56mm
Not our circus. Not our monkeys.
But if they’re in the market for weapons and ammo...
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