I was surprised to read some replies in my previous post , specially after the many posts i have dedicated to the Islamic groups growing in Lebanon and Hezbollah’s threat to Lebanon as a whole, and the resulting Sunnite-Shiite fight that is becoming clearer and more inevitable one day after the other.

First of all, i am totally AGAINST any new militias and i dont believe in the use of force, but i believe pragmatic solutions and in some circumstances, the use of force is unfortunatelly a need. When the Christians got armed in the 70s, it was to protect their community and defend the Christians & Lebanon from the invadors. Had we decided not to get armed, we would have been slaughtered and if lucky enough, deported.

Today, M14 are majorily responsible for getting us to this messed up situation, where political pressure is no more an option with Hezbollah. I blame M14 because i know Hezbollah cares less about Lebanon & Aoun has prostituted himself to Hezbollah and become useless, while M14 had the golden opportunity to isolate Hezbollah, strenghen themselves and benefit from international support to disarm Hezbollah politically or militarily.

Instead, compromise was the name of the game, and they emerged as the biggest losers, and mistake after mistake gave more power to Hezbollah and made the international community recalculate their cards.

You ask why dont we let the army do their role ?? When did the army do its job ever ?? ( except Nahr el Bared) .. The army will split the second it sides with any community ..
For those who are unaware, many Sunnite officers threatened to resign after the Beirut incidents, and Sleiman had to calm them and adjust their salaries and ranks in order to keep them.

Hariri & the Sunnites will never forget what happened, and they hate Hezbollah more than ever after the humiliation endured ( unlike what u think Arze), and tons of jihadists and extremists are starting to show up in the North & Beqaa.

I never advocated the use of violence and never will, but this is the sad reality nowadays. I already said Lebanon without its Christians is useless, and its Christians sadly enough are useless nowadays because they are following incompetent, selfish, power-seeking leaders with no vision nor plan for the future and will be the only victims of the Sunnite-Shiite clash locally & regionally.




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  • 1. Elie.F. | June 9th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    When the Christians got armed in the 70s, it was to protect their community and defend the Christians & Lebanon from the invadors.
    1: That’s totally right N,but was this to fight the Syrians and Palestinians or to kill another lebanese people from the Sunni and Shi3a?
    Many Sunnite officers threatened to resign after the Beirut incidents, and Sleiman had to calm them and adjust their salaries and ranks in order to keep them.
    2: did they threat because they couldn’t do their job as Sunni or as ARMY? and r u trying to say that they dumped their threat because they got well payed? Hariri could have paid them more why didn’t he do to urge them to resign?
    Christians will be the only victims of the Sunnite-Shiite clash locally & regionally.
    3: why didn’t you call the LF to start organizing it’s militia? do u think that only the Sunni are threatened in their regions? what about the Shi3a of Jbeil and M3aysra and the shi3a of Rweisat and Byakout and Z3eitriye?aren’t they a threat to the Christians area?this is without mentioning the Marada and the FPM which i hope they will not play the role of TROY.
    Again, even if we had several comments on the role of the army this must not less us lose confidence in their role.

  • 2. a5watz | June 10th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Hariri should wack everybody, or just himself…

  • 3. fad14 | June 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    I still don’t understand why the army get salaries and huge end of service compensations.

    We need to allocate the money to the church and mosques instead as most of the soldiers have Sect first and country after and in any sign of difference they all bounce back to their sects.

  • 4. N10452 | June 11th, 2008 at 7:52 pm

    Elie.F,

    1. Unfortunatelly, Shiiites proclaimed themselves ennemies of Lebanon by attacking Beirut and therefore yes you need to defend yourself from them.

    2.They threatened because of the incompetence and passivness of the army and got back after their salaries were adjusted and they were reassured as well and of course Hariri had a say in it.

    3. The LF cannot organize any militia because of its past experience and because the Christians are divided and because there is no more a cause to fight for like before.
    The LF nowadays put the Christians as well as the FPM in the middle of this Shiite-Sunnite fight.



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