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• 1. White American | November 11th, 2006 at 1:12 pm

  I read several posts decrying political corruption and the blind loyalty to parties’ by their supporters along ethnic lines. Instead of waiting for politicians to bring up ideas, why don’t citizens begin initiatives, propositions, etc. based on economic reforms like a set minimum wage that would not only benefit impoverished Shia, but also those of low income in the Christian, Sunni, Druid, etc. communities. Your political reform lies first with economic reform.

• 2. White American | November 11th, 2006 at 1:44 pm

  When I say “enacting a minimum wage” I mean to say an enforced minimum wage.

  Improvement of local business situations with pro growth inititatives like tax break incentives for small business, an improved chamber of commerce to build jobs and provide security in typically impoverished regions based on a citizens own satisfaction with his or her own lot in life.

• 3. White American | November 11th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

  Aside from economics, there’s also this idea:

  Given reports we get on this side of the ocean regarding the dozen or so assassinations of critics of Hizbullah in the last year, a true democracy doesn’t seem to be possible as long as Nasrallah is walking around with an Iranian supplied rocket launcher.

  In your opinion, what would be the effect of a constant criticism of Nasrallah. He obviously flares up at the slightest remark against him or his party (the riot a few months ago in Beirut over some slight against his character for example). But a constant focused attack, not on Hizbullah, but him directly, like the kind of constant barrage mounted against President Bush.

  At first, the obvious reaction would be outrage on behalf of his supporters, but after a month or so of constantly focusing on his foibles and shortcomings on the issues of spending Iranian money on his militia more than the needy Shia peoples he’s sworn to protect who’ve been hit hardest by the Lebanon-Israeli Summer War, his comfort with the limelight putting himself before the martyrs who have died fighting for his cause in the past, etc.

  How long do you think Nasrallah would survive if the “GET BUSH” Doctrine were applied to him? As time went on, a year or so after the Iraq invasion, the GET BUSH Doctrine began to widdle away at his own republican support in Congress. Repubs began to distance themselves from him. The recent democratic election success had a lot to do not only with Iraq, but with discontent with the republican congress that didn’t support Bush on things they had originally promised to.

  Do you think a prolonged “Get Nasrallah” campaign would be effective in widdeling away his support and the support of Hizbullah by forcing him to focus more on defending himself from accusations than keeping his eye on aiding the impoverished Shia, following the orders coming in from Iran and Syria, etc.?

• 4. Jim | November 11th, 2006 at 6:18 pm

  allah yer7amak ya gebran!! although he was orthodox he deserved 2b the next true president of lebanon@@ btw can any1 answer me: is the elections of AUT this monday??

• 5. N10452 | November 11th, 2006 at 11:24 pm

  White American,
  That’s exactly my aim, to encourage the youth to start something new, something fresh and independant from political parties, and i am working on this issue with a group of young men.

  As for the ‘get nasrallah’ campaign, i think it helped put Nasrallah on the level of all other dirty politicians and Syrian agents, and stop this Godly image he had for himself.

  Remember how they demonstrated when A comic show imitated Nasrallah, well now you receive more funny mails on Nasrallah than on Bush

• 6. rita | November 12th, 2006 at 11:32 pm

  wow wow wow … great article, i never thought these words would come out of a lebanese person .. its kinda reliefing to know there’s someone who shares that idea with you. I face this problem everyday in my life at skool .. home .. everywhere as am i known to be Lebanese forces everyone thinks im supposed to hate a aounist :s or to swear to a shi3a person and if i happen to defend l general in something i always get that look of what the hell ! she’s lebanese forces … this doesnt mean i agree with aouns policy … why dont we have our own ideas ? our own politics … in our own minimized societies .. ((ma 3am 2oul nensa l adiyé ))

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