a thought
Reading what joumblat is saying about Nasrallah, reprimanding him on not asking for the country's permission to wage the war.
Made me think.
Did Rafic Hariri get the permission of all the Lebanese before he went on the massive reconstruction spree? Didn't he monopolize the decision-making power, armed by money just as Nasrallah is armed by rockets? Of course it is different, you will say: Hariri was Building, Nasrallah is Fighting, but the point is, that each of them had a political agenda and when they had the power to implement it, they did, despite the objections of many Lebanese.
Made me think.
Did Rafic Hariri get the permission of all the Lebanese before he went on the massive reconstruction spree? Didn't he monopolize the decision-making power, armed by money just as Nasrallah is armed by rockets? Of course it is different, you will say: Hariri was Building, Nasrallah is Fighting, but the point is, that each of them had a political agenda and when they had the power to implement it, they did, despite the objections of many Lebanese.
posted by hawzers at 8/18/2006 05:17:00 AM
2 Comments:
come to think about it, the corruption that was in the heart of hariri's plan to reconstruct his projects.. errr.. I mean to reconstruct the country, was far more destructive on the Lebanese economy with its almost eternal debt and its implications (along with the culture of corruption that got injected even further in the lebanese mentality) than the actual destruction of bridges and houses that can be easily rebuilt by the money that is competitively rushing towards us from all sides.
Plus I think Jumblat himself can, instead of whining, rebuild few bridges and power plants with the half a billion dollars he sucked from the ministeries he was responsible for in the nineties under the protection of the Syrian moukhabart.
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