“Victory is ours” I heard Hassan Nasrallah say on TV…and seriously I couldn’t help but smile…what victory was this man speaking of???

How does a party like Hezbollah measure victory and in what terms?

If he means victory of the Lebanese people, then, let us look carefully at the impact the last 33 days of war has had on Lebanon:

1- More than 1000 persons have lost their lives
2- Five thousand wounded
3- A million and a half homeless and displaced
4- Cost of losses due to destruction close to 5 billion dollars
5- Major foreign investors are reconsidering their investments in the country
6- Many of the educated young people are leaving the country to go out to safer places
7- Fuel for electrical plants is estimated to last another two days before it runs out…which means no electricity
8- Petrol for cars is already running short and some people are queuing for hours to be able to obtain a miserable 10 liters of the fuel.

So how can this be considered as a victory?

Unless we are talking another type of victory…the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Lebanon…then by all means it is…today, Lebanon is laid open…people are screaming from hunger…diseases are spreading like wild fire amongst the displaced and the homeless…so we have the perfect setup for a country like Iran to come in and take control…distribute some foodstuff, assist here and there in some reconstruction projects…and you have the support of the population…then launch the revolution…On the other hand, Iran wins a major playing card in the region and that is a loaded weapon aimed at the head of Israel…this would give it more leverage in the talks about its nuclear project. So it is indeed some victory…

And the best thing? It is that there are Christians who are supporting this maneuver and are part of this masquerade…I’m not being a religious bigot or anything but I mean what Christian in his right mind would support a party whose motto is “Islamic Revolution in Lebanon”??? Is a presidential post worth this? Is a couple of parliamentary seats worth this change in the face of Lebanon??? Has human nature gone so low???

Today more than ever, Lebanon is calling for all the true Lebanese for help.

Today more than ever, we need a second March 14th demo…

We need to show the whole wide world what the Lebanese think about all this…

We need to show the whole wide world that we want peace…that we refuse to live as hostages in our own country, hostages to a bunch of Islamic fanatics…

We kept silent so far not because we agreed with them, but because we wanted to avoid internal friction…we wanted to avoid the destruction of the country… well it is destroyed now… and by the look of things, there will be more destruction to come if we do not take a stand…

We have had enough of people talking for us…when we marched to kick Syria out, it was not to replace it with Iran… nor with anyone else for that matter…

I hate to sound ominous but if we do not take the future into our own hands, Lebanon will become a thing of the past…

Fellow Lebanese, your country needs you…stand up and speak out…or go back into oblivion and this time, maybe for ever.