This is so delusional and r-slurred it makes John Bolton look like a stable genius in comparison: Now that Nasrallah is dead, a president will be elected and it will solve everything.
The only times that Lebanon has barely functioned as a state is when there was consensus among the Christians, Shi'a, Sunnis, and Druze.
There's only been a few guys stupid enough to think they could "win" and dominate the whole country. They got killed once they seemed to be anywhere near to achieving that.
It's kind of hard to build up a functioning bureaucracy while everyone is cowering in bomb shelters.
People don't like to cooperate with American plans while American bombs are landing on them.
The President of Lebanon has never had the power to fix the country's real problems. In fact the constitution is set up to make sure they can't. You're going to have to keep dealing with Nabih Berri.
They desperately need lots of money. Nobody is going to lend money to them while they're getting bombed and everything will just get immediately destroyed.
I cannot emphasize this enough: Syria and Hezbollah are still capable of killing anyone in Beirut they want to. They may feel entitled to carry out assassinations given what has happened lately.
The only thing I'm wondering is if this is male autism like the "Whiz Kids" of the Vietnam War or vapid female r-sluration where midwit women from rich east coast families have been promoted up through academia and think that means they actually know what the frick they're talking about.
There's a lot of people making decisions about this stuff who apparently have no idea that exactly what they're planning to do has been tried before and it didn't work. Or maybe they know and they just don't give a shit because it's never hurt the job prospects of neocons or R2P tards that they totally failed at everything and just ended up killing lots of people.
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Maybe
Should just be partitioned into a 
state (x2), a 
state and a Druze state (there is no Druze emoji so I am going to use 
for them ) 
Feels like its a 
but even more ethnic and sectarian tensions.
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This is the "canton" idea that was brought up a lot in the 1980s. That the Maronites would have their own little state in East Beirut up north to Zgharta outside Tripoli. This was kind of taken as a serious threat because the country was so fricked up that them having their little Christian Bantustan wouldn't be a step down. A number of problems though. It's too small to be viable. The Syrians could roll over it really fast if they wanted to. Most Christians were not extremists who hated the rest of the country. WTF would the economy even be?
They're tough but there's not nearly enough of them. They can't exist without the rest of the country. Which you could say about Lebanese in general. Despite all the extreme tensions between them, they can't just disentangle from each other.
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Kinda like that except with enemies on all sides that could shell you at any time. And that's what they would do. Just randomly shell your neighborhood when somebody was mad.
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It's like Redactor is really close to understanding what Israel's experience is, but his brain is broken as soon as Jews enter the mix.
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What in the frick is that even supposed to mean? Where do any Jews live within artillery range of Beirut to Tripoli?
I'm not making fun of you, I unironically have no idea who the frick you're talking about. I was talking about Syria, Hezbollah, etc.
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You really struggle to map this sentiment to Israel?
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Yes. I struggle to understand how tube artillery from Israel could do that to Beirut on an economical level since that's a distance of 100km.
We had way better kids working for Sysco in my time.
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Sounds like
to me
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They were disguised as Mexicans on their flight here LOL
!chuds
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whoo?? malays and indos?
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Yea muzzies
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Fun fact, the Chinese sometimes do the same across the southern border.
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你好 amigo
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At the risk of contradicting my bro
@X's flippant remarks that's because they both were in a situation where they had to be really militarized in the early 1960s. In the case of Singapore that's because Indonesia was run by aggressive communist psychos until 1965. Which ended when the communist coup failed there. Crying little white girls in foreign countries have claimed there was a "genocide" then but that's not what Indonesians or declassified CIA reports from the time tell me.
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Lol this right!
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The Muslims will never stop their war of conquest.
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