2nd Thought of the Day

What is the Lebanese wager, a century and a quarter after the autonomy of Mount Lebanon, three quarters of a century after the establishment of Greater Lebanon, and half a century after independence? It is this: to renew the contract between those tenacious and obsolete units that are Lebanon's different communities, in order to transcend them within a structure which would allow room only for a State and its citizens; to do it despite the existence of a lightweight elite, and without renouncing liberty in a post-modern era where all affirmations and certainties have been undermined; to do it in an environment characterized by often merciless states and regimes; and finally to do it amid a rise in fundamentalism resulting from the bringing to heel of much of the world in order to plunder it of its wealth.

posted by Lazarus, 7:59 PM