What I want to say in this post may disturb some people, and others may not like what I have to say or may not agree with me, but I decided to talk about this issue to see other people’s opinions in this and to have a sane trade of ideas (please).
Before I say what I have in mind, I should emphasis that I’m a Christian Maronite and very proud to be, so I’m not trying to undermine any of the Maronites rights here.
BUT, and in time people are asking why we have that much of traitors among the Christian politicians in Lebanon, and mainly on the Maronites scene, I find in my humble thinking that the main reason for that is the Presidency chair, and the dream which invades nearly every Lebanese Maronite head since his birth of becoming President (including myself), and we have many samples to prove it, unfortunately bad ones.
LOOK AT OUR HISTORY, it was and still full of differences between Maronite leaders, if anyone still remember the “Nahej” and the “Hilf” (النهج والحلف) in the 50s and 60s, and later in the 70s and 80s (Sleiman Frangieh vs Lebanese Front leaders), passing on to the late 80s and 90s with Michel Aoun and le petit Sleiman, arriving to Elias Hrawi, Emile Lahoud and Michel Sleiman among others.
All those named here and others were and still are ready to do anything, whatever it is, to become Presidents, or even to extend their stay in Baabda.
They have launched wars after wars (aka Aoun), destroying the country (aka Aoun, Lahoud), dividing the Christian community (Aoun, both Frangieh the grandfather and le petit), selling themselves and their people to anyone who can help them to get the chair (Aoun, Frangieh, Hrawi, Lahoud, and more than 1000 others), change their beliefs and principles (Aoun, Lahoud, Sleiman), and to commit murders (Lahoud), everything for the chair.
So, and as a result, I Rodge the Lebanese Maronite from Mount Lebanon, clearly ask everyone concerned to take away this position from Maronites for God sake, or else we will keep on killing each others.
In fact, we should ask ourselves what our former Presidents have achieved for us by sitting in that chair?? Nothing, most of them haven’t done anything special for us, in fact they hurt us a lot, look what Lahoud did, see what Aoun did and still doing, both Frangiehs, Hrawi, and maybe Sleiman in the future.
Personally I prefer a Kurdish coming from anywhere in this world to be President IF he will make my country better and serve it with loyalty and faith and ensure us a better life, and make me and other immigrants think of coming back to Lebanon.
Eventually maybe it is better for us to have another chair, maybe PM or speaker of the Parliament, they are more effective, look at Berri for instance, he was ruling the country for the past couple of years, refusing to open the parliament and keeping the key of all the solutions with him.
In conclusion, I want, and I think you all do, what is best for Lebanon, no matter who will bring it, because IF we can’t have a GOOD and STRONG and POWERFUL Maronite president (like BASHIR or maybe DSG or anyone who could be strong enough), a president that we can elect with our own will and not by the others’ agreements, why would we need that position?? Let us refuse it, maybe we’ll live in peace and unity after.