Hariri Will Not Drop His Guns

There is only one argument that might convince Saad Hariri of dropping Samir Geagea and Walid Jumblat: The disarming of Hezbollah.

A very tight grip

By announcing that “there are factions (within the majority) that have an interest in a solution and that are seeking a solution. And there are internal forces that do not have an interest in a solution.”, Hassan Nassrallah effectively culminates an orchestrated yet futile “divide and conquer” strategy.

The Syrian newspapers, the opposition’s media and just about every March 8 politician have been towing the same line after February 14’s speeches: “Hariri good, Jumblat and Geagea bad”

It is still not clear why they are playing such an obvious game. Without Geagea and Jumblat, Hariri is literally defenseless and would be eaten alive by the mobs in the “resistance”

March 14 knows this very well, and as Failasoof pointed out in my previous post: March 14’s leaders are just playing a good cop-bad cop game.

Perhaps when listening to Hariri’s ‘friendly’ speeches next time, Nassrallah should reflect very well on one of Al-Capone’s most memorable quotes:
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.