I blame the Lebanese people. Almost a year ago, the Lebanese woke up. They took the streets and forced the Syrian Forces to pull out of Lebanon. A few months later, they went back to sleep. By doing so, they allowed the traditional politicians and political parties to take over their revolution and cut it into pieces. The chance of turning Lebanon to a true democratic state was assassinated in front of their eyes and they didn’t budge. They watched the masquerade of “National Dialogue” unfold in front of them, they didn’t blink.

On the Christian sides, they were back to division LF vs. Tayyar. Both parties threw accusations at each others. Their supporters defended their leaders’ decision without even understanding those decisions. In reality, both group and leaders are the same. Both made the same mistakes. Yet, LF members and Tayyar followers didn’t see the tragedy of their leaders’ decision. One signed an accord with Hezbollah; the other entered a government that supports Hezbollah military actions. Both in a way or another politically covered Hezbollah. Result: War in Lebanon, 400 dead and counting, thousands of injured and displaced, total destruction. Same goes for the Muslim Lebanese, in a way or another; they also politically covered Hezbollah actions.

Here comes Mrs. Rice, ready to listen to the Lebanese factions. What do we as LF offer her? We offered her Mr. Adwan. He stood there next to Jumblat and Amin. I am sure both pitched their agendas. This is the “new” LF. We stood by others and accept to be a small player in all this.

What the LF should have done is go back to its original project. A project that had been circulating in the United State political circles as well as military and media. We should have presented her with our solution for Lebanon (I know many will say this is not the time or our solution has been dropped). This solution might be implemented all over the Middle East. Our project might be implemented all over the region, what do we do? We send Mr. Adwan; we drop the chance of presenting it. We drop our project. A week ago, I was reading a study about how federalism should be implemented in the Middle East. How federalism is the only solution for the region. What did we do when we had the chance to meet Mrs. Rice, we send her Mr. Adwan.

Some blame Hezbollah, others blame Israel. I blame the Lebanese people in general for letting go of their cedar revolution and in particular, I blame the Lebanese Forces for dropping federalism as a political project.