Bluffing, Bluffing, And Bluffing Some More

Hezbollah said it conducted its largest military maneuvers in its history and now Aoun threatens to raid the Serail and other government institutions. All this sounds like hot air to me.

On the march…

Honestly, I am itching to test Aoun and Hezbollah on their increasingly bellicose threats. I’ve said this before: On December 1st (where the opposition’s biggest demonstration took place), the opposition took their best shot and it was a one-off. For various reasons, they can no longer muster the momentum to mobilize half that amount of people.

The “largest Hezbollah maneuver in its history” turned out to be a big lie that only took place on Al-Akhbar’s pages. How pathetic is that? The same UNIFL that Al-Akhbar claimed “was shocked” by Hezbollah’s drills denied seeing anything.

Does Aoun really believe that his followers are going to take arms and occupy public buildings just because he didn’t become the “consensus president” ? Are Hezbollah really ready for a Gaza scenario where they can wreak havoc and then later pretend that they want to talk with their Lebanese “brothers”, after belatedly discovering that Hezbollah-land banks will be cut off from the international financial system- Lebanon’s bloodline- and that Hezbollah’s would-be government will be much easier to isolate internationally?

Let’s just play the democratic game. Spare us all the hollow scare mongering that does nothing but fuel the Lebanese arms market. It’s good to talk, and it’s better to agree. But at the end, a president must emerge, and the constitution tells us how.