Good for her.
Bad for Lebanon.
Same story in every village, every family, every household.

One more perpetual refugee...

Have the Lebanese really given up all hope for their home country? Are they just going to lie down and let Syria/Hezbollah/Iran win because they are tired and their current batch of leaders corrupt?

We're not giving up Solomon, its just that the 'talkers' and 'thinkers' are being put aside (Mitri & Rizk - look for lack of 'stand up' guys in next cabinet), killed off (Tueni + Kassir + others that have left out of indirect fear), or just plain ignored (Harb + N. Lahoud + Fouad Boutros et al).

The game is once again becoming one of gun vs. gun, that is the way to kill a dream and that is what Syria and its goons (including Hizballah) have managed to do.

The mismanagement of popular support and sentiment (after those that could manage it were killed off) by the M14 leadership (primary among them being the Future Movement clique) didn't help either.

In a game such as this, what else is left for the country's good people to do?

In a game such as this, what else is left for the country's good people to do?

1) Have the army and police or even concerned citizens cordon off neighborhoods to channel car traffic through checkpoints, thus reducing the opportunity for car bombs. Of course this is a great inconvenience, but it worked in Iraq, and would certainly increase the physical security of Lebanon's politicians.

2) Get friends from other sects together, declare a united political agenda and the willingness to stick to it should some of you die or disappear. Invite other Lebanese to join you your movement may grow.

Been there done that my dear Sol2...

...since 2005 and before [try 30 years before], and yet here we are.

In fact, the only reason we're still here is M14's avoidance of significant street actions (now limited to a few post-assassination funeral services here and there) since early 2006. Street actions, which as we saw last week, the Syrian/Iranian groups would readily use to bring about a state of chaos.

In any case, M14 should have been constitutionally stricter, resisting the shutting down of the various institutions Syria/Iran have so far managed to shutdown. I highlighted the FM in the previous comment but others are to blame as well...

...these violations will always remain relatively minor, however, when compared to the devastation being implemented by the opposition today.

I know M14 should have been stricter, but that didn't happen - they chickened out. So if you want something done politically, what alternative is there other than you doing it yourself, BJ?