Dark is Their Tunnel

Son, Napoleon Bonaparte is quoted as having said, “In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” Indeed, the Assad regime relied on the archaic notions of Arab unity and one Arab nation to have the necessary support from a people so hung on the past and still not cured from their humiliating wars with Israel.

The civil war proved to the Lebanese and the world that just because the League of Nations carved out Lebanon from a map doesn’t mean that the Lebanese have stopped to be loyal to their clan and religion and became patriotic. However, Syria did not get the message. Not only that, but it also wanted to have Lebanon as a part of Syria and thus the enormous mistakes and atrocities done to the Lebanese.

But, dad, you have still not answered the question. Why now? And how can we have hope when assassinations and economical siege and what-say-you are being practiced??

Why you ask me, well nobody said it better than Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. He said, “You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.”
The Syrians have held us literary captives to their whims and fraudulent policies for so long. They idiotically believed that we would remain under their control providing they terrorize us in all means and any measures possible. Well, we have proved them wrong and they are so shocked and dry that they have managed to be even more politically “stupid”! And what is worse for them is that the international community has turned against them after September the eleventh and they are dumbfounded! Honestly, their molestations right now are not so surprising for you have to think using their logic that is that of a five year old kid. What does a child do when he is being reprimanded? He shouts, breaks things and kicks etc. They are assassinating and breaking our economy…

How shall the Lebanese people have hope? Easy! What do you think the kid does after he gets tired from crying and reaping havoc? He sits in a corner, sucks his finger and wonder what his punishment would be and how long it would take until his parents forgive him…

The dark tunnel the Lebanese are in is getting brighter by the day and as for their tunnel, well I will say this, “In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy.