i am currently listening to the speech myself... and let me say i'm just very disgusted by this speech. Nasrallah says it's a declaration of war, but it is him who is declaring it! (and laughing about it!).
as a lebanese christian, i've become used to fear his words since the Hezbollah group are the only ones who carry weapons! we dont want that anymore! what we want is live normal lives.. without fear of catching a bullet at any second..

just thought i'd speak my mind.
thank you.

The lebanese people are going through a rough time and there is a thin line between protesting and a civil war. A civil war that bought lebanon to the ground years ago. It was our parents who lived this war, and still in shock when anyone speaks of it. It is the worst act, when someone hold a firearm against his brother in religion and country. There is enough blood shed in the world, and let's minimize it. It's in the hands of the lebanese people not their leaders.

The lebanese people are going through a rough time and there is a thin line between protesting and a civil war. A civil war that bought lebanon to the ground years ago. It was our parents who lived this war, and still in shock when anyone speaks of it. It is the worst act, when someone hold a firearm against his brother in religion and country. There is enough blood shed in the world, and let's minimize it. It's in the hands of the lebanese people not their leaders.

Hi,

The Lebanese mentality, disregarding beeing Muslim or Christian and disregarding to which camp one belongs, has reached an obssen level of conservatism and impolitness.
Personally, I think both sides are forging information, leading media battles, words batlles. But something is forgotten, the lebanese citizen who is acctually dying of hunger!! It was the lebanese citizen that went to the streets two days ago because they can no longer afford to buy bread and feed their families (Christians and Muslims, Sunni and Shiites, Orthodox and Catholics)! Instead of beeing heard and offered a solution, the demonstration was used by BOTH parties to promote conservatisim and war. Personally I love Lebanon as a country but at the end of day, what is going trough right now is needed for the country. It has to happen for Lebanon to move forward else will be stuck in the same mentality for couple more decades.
If this stage can go trough in an organized and political way, then we may have a huge chance on picking up our economy fast...
I can only wish peace to all and may every gun carrier be blessed with wisdom before he pulls the trigger....

A Lebanese abroad who adores Lebanon!

There has been an evident and open at attempt to disarm and/or destroy Hizballah since 2005.

Lebanon has been the victim of Israeli aggression on a number of occasions and in 1982 over 15,000 died to "protect Israels northern border". Now we have a resistance able and willing to stand up to this aggression. A resistnace that has never fired at Israel proper except in retaliation and never turned it guns against fellow Lebanese except in self-defence.

The tactic of disarming them via international pressure via UN resolutions failed.

The tactic of disarming them via warfare failed in 2006.

The tactic of political pressure, of heavily financed anti-Hizballah propaganda failed.

And now, just after Welch declares that Lebanon will have a "hot summer", it seems the government of Lebanon has been given the green light to launch a heavy political assault by targeting its communications network on the pre-text that it will cost the nation income (the network is not a telephone network).

The aim? To draw them into an internal war, in order to re-classify them, in the eyes of the Lebanese and the Arab world as just another militia.

Its too obvious a trap and it will not happen.

The only issue now is that events have spiralled so far that neither side can back down without fatally destroying its image.

And because both sides knwo this there are now only two choices. Full dialogue without preconditions or full scale war.

Nasrallah has declared he prefers the dialogue but everyone knows Hizballah would be more than capable should it become war.
The ruling clique would, after all their efforts and probable promises , regard talks a defeat. So one must ask, do they prefer the loss of face or the loss of life?

I hate to agree with " Lebanese abroad who adores Lebanon!" but the lebanese people are going through what seems like a coldwar and soemthing needs to be done, but i always had a faith that the lebanese people are too independent and thoughful and will not go back to the time where leaders on their gold chairs are rulling and the poor citizens are their shields. Lebanon is a country that deserves more than this.

As usual, selective hearing!

Nasralla is a murderer and should be treated as such.

He is hell bent ob destroying Lebanon.

It is high time that Lebanon destroys him and his vigilante army who do not recognize the legitimacy of the country itself and are puppets on the strings of Iran's madman from Teheran.

Lebanon and the whole Middle-East is fed up with Nasrallah and his armed Hizballa who wants to "defeat the whole world", and their bloody warlords Syria and Iran.

Will they ever let the Lebanese people live in peace?

What is happening in Lebanon is very unfortunate.I dont think there will be an end to it until Lebanon forcefully renounces all the jihadists and terrorists who fight in the name of G-d . How can a mass murderer like Nasrallah be allowed to walk in the streets without being put on trial, My family has suffered directly through his hands and his fearless thugs

Experiencing the social and economic destruction and witnessing the environmental devastation of the 2006 war between Hezbullah and Israel is the main reason for which in careers.
I always am impressed with Nasrallah's speeches, from his story-telling way of delivery to his honesty that came with a smile when he mentioned what we all know enters Lebanon via the int'l airport!
As a non-practicing Christian resident, I feel the need to correct "anonymous" on her/his notion that Hezbullah is the only group that carries weapons in Lebanon - are you sure we're living in the same country? Every household has a weapon for self-defence and surely you must know of the LF’s weapons, which honestly, scare me more than the Hezb’s. I remember when Christians turned on their fellow Christians – don’t you? The Hezb is defending my country’s territory, which up to a point was being invaded by the region’s biggest bully backed by the world’s youngest nation and super-power. You must be watching westernized news my friend :)
It's sad that nobody is bothered that 20 yrs later we're seeing the same corrupt faces on our screens. This is another reason reinforcing my belief that we are a naive people and our country is a playground.
I do not support any faction of the Lebanese government. I think it needs a re-shuffling, a group of news faces, a group of new leaders with no ties (if that’s possible in the world of corrupt politics and lobbyists)
I do however have respect for Hezbullah and its causes; I might not agree with the methodology, but I'm exhausted from our corrupt government and the obvious Israeli oppression in the region. There won’t be peace until they start treating themselves as our equals, not our superiors.

As always Lebanese people forget that they live in a country and region that hasn't know peace and stability for a long time now.
I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian but you must never forget that the crisis we have been facing since the "Cairo agreement" and still facing today is the integration of the Palestinians as Lebanese citizens, so that a peace agreement can be reached between Israel and the Palestinian authority, thus giving the Bush administration (and any other one after it) a success that would give them control of all this region by means of puppets governments (already happened in most Arab countries).
So please stop bickering about petty differences and see the big picture that's unfolding in front of you, and just wait for the UN resolution that will be given today and pray that we don't become a second Iraq.

If we are to look back at the political agenda/process in lebanon in the past year it is very abvious that it is going to lead to either partial civil war or a full blown one....It is very unfortunate that lebanon is a battle ground for so many different countries, few current politicians are war lord and should have never been given the opportunity to get in to politics again, other politicians are led by outside influences and few, very few are considering equality and unity for the Lebanese people, as a whole, those few reoresent the majority, and they were betrayed internally......The only way to stop this none sense is through round table, without any outside influences, with unity in mind, Reality is we can not blame one side or the other, everyone has justification for what they have done or doing. As Lebanese you need to stand united against all politicians and ask for a change, the poeple need to stand and stop being led, Lebanon should be for all Lebanese and not one relegion or the other, There was no phonecian DNA found any where in Lebanon among Lebanese, and the change for a united Lebanon start when few Lebanese stop saying they are Phonecian when they are asked what is their backround in foreign countries, they should stand up and say we are proud Lebanese...in other words we have a lot of fundemental as well as structurale changes that need to be done, starting form individual to politicians.......

Leaving religion completely out of this, what makes it okay for a group of armed people to shut down the streets of a major city in any country? Tell me how is it that of piles of sand and burning tires in the middle of our streets is going to solve anything? I agree with the fact that the citizens wanted a ‘peaceful strike’, but what exactly is peaceful about Hezbullah and their tactics?

By doing this, ‘they’ as in the people in the streets, are what is making Lebanon get worse and worse. Does our beautiful ‘Paris of the Middle East’ really need this? Someone mentioned that there are groups in Lebanon who are armed far worse than Hezbullah, although I don’t agree with this comment, I will address it anyways, why is it that Hezbullah is the only one who feels the need to start problems in the country they claim they love so much? Hezbullah is the only group that uses their weapons against the rest of Lebanon. How is it that people think Hezbullah is defending Lebanon’s territory? That is funny to me, because it seems that Hezbullah is what is putting Lebanon in decline in more ways than one.

Why is it that Lebanon is divided in so many ways? How can anyone expect Lebanon to move forward when the Lebanese themselves cannot agree with one another? Everyone needs to be on the same page, and want to see Lebanon grow and become the country that overcame a million obstacles in a peacefully, nonviolent way. However, when different groups have different ideas on how to make Lebanon one, that is where all the problems start. Hezbullah is the only group in Lebanon that the United States deems a terrorist group. I do not consider that a coincidence. I truly believe that the best way for Lebanon to move forward is to have Hezbullah lay down their arms. In no country is it right for any ‘political’ group to feel that they need to act on behalf of Lebanon. Lebanon has an army, let the army do the dirty work; if they feel assistance is necessary, then the Lebanese army can ask for that help. Until then, Hezbullah needs to stop starting problems for no apparent reason.

A peaceful strike of having the workers simply stay home would have benefitted Lebanon far more then the extremists in the streets.

again, you say it like the UN and their actually matters, or their resolutions are respected... the UN has absolutely no power in the region, and it's silly to think otherwise.
May I also add that "cutting off their hand" is figurative in Arabic - my dad used to tell me that when I attempted at hiding his boxes of cigarettes. Media need to stop taking things out of context and using literal translation. Please show some knowledge of the language.

As a lebaneses I am very concerned with what Nasrallh said and with where is will takwe thwe country. Enough with the war crap...enough with putting lebanon last and his big mouth first...We neesd peace...if they want a war take out of Lebanon and have it where they are getting their orders from..

As a Lebanese Christian, I trust Hassan Nasrallah's wisdom. He's a very smart person and sees the whole picture behind what is happening. I also trust that he's working for the democracy and independence of Lebanon. his followers are now in self defense. it is always the pro-government militia namely the hariri followers who begin shooting at civilians forbidding them from demonstrating.

‘Paris of the Middle East’????
plz stop day-dreaming...
For those who don't know :
-1/3 of Lebanese people are poor or under the poverty line.
-19% don't have any Diploma (including brevet).
-40 billion USD in debts and counting
This is a reality check for anyone not living in Lebanon or is still living in the 60s.
Our dear country has been ravaged by both Lebanese and Syrian monsters for 30 years and is now being run by war criminals lusting for power.So plz stop dreaming and
as I said before pray that we don't
become like Iraq.

I was obviously speaking of the beauty currently being destroyed by the unnecessary destruction...not on the education level nor the wealth of the country!

Lebanon and the whole middle east is fed up form ignorant politicians that are self centered criminals that just got out of life sentence jail to lead, thats is beyong my comprehession, how could a criminal that bombed churchs with a life sentence, get out of jail to become war lord politician, and we wonder why Lebanon is heading towards distruction?

i just want to respond to the first poster.
"since the Hezbollah group are the only ones who carry weapons"

come on open your eyes!! every group has weapons and they have been rearming since 2005!!! Everyone knows that, even people who dont want to admit it know it. Stop lying to yoursleves, we are a bunch of morons!!

I have lived in a quiet neighborhood of Hamra (in Beirut) for six years. I heard the speech, and now there is gunfire (and more) in the streets. I was out, briefly, this afternoon, and a man I know just looked at me like I was crazy and said "Beit! Beit!" (house! house!) He wanted me to run.

As Nasrallah demonstrated during the summer war of 06 (which he started), I think he is willing to destroy this beautiful little country so that he can have it. I think the majority of the Lebanese people will tell him "LA!" (NO!)

Ordinarily, I would proudly post this with my name and website, but Nasrallah's speech demonstrated such a twisted view of reality, that I fear there could be reprisals for being uncomplementary to him

Hi Hala,

Actually this does not come as a surprise to me. I am a Lebanese living between NYC and Geneva, and I lived the 75-90 war in its fullest in Lebanon. In my opinion, what's happening now is simply the consequence of the 1943 constitution that is based on religious power sharing between communities that hardly have anything in common, and on important gaps and flaws in this constitutions where, to give one example, one man - the president of the house - can decide, single handedly, whether the house is to convene or not, depending on which political side he belongs to. But also, in a more "recent" stance, this is the result of the Taef accord that is nothing but a quick fix for a problem that, a few hours prior to ratifying it, the situation in Lebanon seemed so complex and impossible to resolve. Let's keep in mind that the players are the same people who started the war in 75 - or their children - and this is a country that, and I am sad to admit it, does not learn from its own mistakes.

I'm Lebanese and I've been living in NEw York for the last two years --and like every time something happens in Beirut, I feel completely mobilized, glued to the TV and frantically "refreshing" internet pages. I call home and I get the busy signal. Yes, this happens a lot, I'm used to it. But today is different. I was supposed to go to Beirut tomorrow, now I can't. My family is stranded at home, and I am stranded too, miles and miles away. What Nasrallah is doing is just letting us know, once again, that he is in control, whether we like or not --and that he can obviously do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Remember the war in 2006? We'll remember this too.

I have traveled many times to Beirut and having fallen in love with the city and its people, I cannot believe the stupidity of the violence today. It reminds me of an adage told to during my last visit...

Syria and Israel will keep fighting until every Lebanese is dead.

The world should have allowed Israel to finish the job in 2006.

Sadly your country is being run by a bunch of mad men who believe more in the rule of the gun than the rule of law. The Southern part of your country was flattened - desimated by Israel but these fools see a victory in that. You have an elected government that can not rule because of these people and yet there are people here still posting blogs here in favour of them.
After decades of war you still have not worked out who your enemies are, so fight each other instead. Not very bright are you.

Nothing happens in Lebanon for free. I believe the latest developements signal an upcoming escalation of the tension between Iran and the US. Hizbollah telecomunication network was known by everyone so the timing of Joumblat comments is suspicious and Hizbollah would not have reacted so aggressively without an iranian green light.
In any case it is again the lebanese who will suffer. Igues it is the price to pay for our weakness and division

Come on, this is obsolutely horrible. I am surprised of how easy it is for these leaders to make speeches that concern the people and their future. One guy speaks out and then its everyone to respond and that's all what they do. Oh no I forgot the part about envolving the people to fight.... The leaders are in a hurry to make Lebanon another Iraq... Its time for the people to open their eyes and think about their controlling leaders and start taking action(by saying that I mean start thinking peacefully) And right now I am watching the news and seeing young guys and neighbors going against each others. What is it going to take so they understand that this is not a game but they are ruining a country.

Why are the Shia in Lebanon attacking the Sunni neighborhoods. I don't see any Sunnis going to Haret Hreik or Chiah and firing guns. Hassan Nassrallah is the biggest hypocrite and the biggest traitor to Lebanon!

It weird that some people still don't see the obvious signs that lebanon is just the battle field for the big shots and the lebanese people are paying for it.

I think he is one of a very few Lebanese leaders who cares about his country.
to 1.40 pm Israel tried her best to finish the Job but failed.next time if Israel tries again the battles will be in Israel not in Lebanon.

I think Nazrallah wants to send a message, a warning. I predict he will try to open up a line of dialogue within the next 48 hours. Hezballah is very organized, all Nazrallah has to do is give the order and Hezballah can maintain a cease fire, but only if the other side does as well. The problem is, I think it will be harder to quell the pro-gov militias, as they are not under the same logistical leadership or under a singular voice of authority. They are more divided (Sunnis, Maronites, etc), but are on the same side as far as their hatred for Hezballah is concerned.

Therefore, the real variable to stopping this mess is the pro-gov militias in my opinion. I dont think Hezballah wants a long term open war, but I think the pro-gov militias just might want exactly that. Nazrallah and Hezballah wont maintain a cease fire if the other side does not. The real danger here is the pro-gov militias in my opinion. During the 2006 war, Hezballah proved its organizational command structure by maintaining an immediate cease fire on the orders of Nazrallah, but im not sure if the opposing side can do the same and it may not be as simple.

Hassan Nasrallah have always executed his own agenda towards Lebanon. Whereas all those bunch of US, israeli and saudi arabian puppets namely jumblatt, geagaa, saniora, hariri have always and are still executing US, Israeli and saudi arabian agendas.

To save Lebanon is to get rid of them from power. this doesn't happen in any country other than Lebanon: WAR CRIMINALS leaders during past civil war who continue ruling in the aftermath of war.

We should have patriotic leaders not selfish corrupted leaders who would sell a whole country to remain in power.

Lebanese: please WAKE-UP. let's unite together and stop letting others playing with our destiny.

Lebanon, Paris of the Middle East? YES. money comes and goes. once we get rid of those corrupted robbers who are hijacking our government and open all the files of corruption they are doing, money will return to Lebanon.

what distingues Lebanon is the dynamism every Lebanese person possess, the love of life that exists inside us that make us rise and walk despite all what we go through. I do not agree that Lebanese are not educated. on the contrary we're one of the few countries where all citizens speak at least 3 languages minimum. and in the Middle East Lebanese employees are the brightest.

I doubt that 12:26 was written by a lebanese anyway.

I was at work when a friend of mine who lives in Beirut came online on facebook. He told me of the fighting and how he had seen men armed with machine guns and rpgs around his neighborhood. Cnn had not yet posted this story on its website so I did so on ireport with a couple of pictures. What makes me wonder is how things turn so ugly seemingly so quickly. People appear all of a sudden armed to the teeth with heavy weapons at the slightest provocation. It seems to me that lebanon has the unfortunate fate of being straddled at a strategic point between powerful opposing countries who will keep trying to win the sway as far as its internal politics is concerned. Of course for average Joe's like me sitting a thousand miles away the middle east was always just an academic debate to be watched on TV, at dinner time. Except that now I personally know someone right there in the line of fire... I hope you will join me in a silent prayer for my friend's safety....

This root for civil war is another advantage for the USA to be hostile towards Syria and Iran (for supporting the Hezbollah).

Next to that it is unbelievable that the UN is immediately responding to the 'crisis' and still leaving certain civil wars (Sudan, Abchazia, Georgia, Tadjikistan etc.) behind.

If you want to understand what is going on in Lebanon, which seems to the non-Lebanese as unravelling too fast and unexpectedly violent, you need to go deeper than what meets the eye in the daily events leading to the latest events.

If i have to choose one culprit to point at ,i would have to say it is the human rights.

It may seem quite odd to say that the application of human rights are the the main reason why we have some non-educated,extremist Hizbullah members running the streets of Beirut.

Let me explain : Hizbullah are a militia implanted in Lebanon by the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Over the years they grew stronger under the Syrian hegemony getting money and weapons from Iran.

Up till before the Iraq war,Iran would not use Hizbullah unless it was directly attacked. The vicinity of Hizbullah to Israel would have helped put pressure on the latter as it was seen during the 2006 July war.

But the Iraq war changed everything.

Only a christian lebanese can explain what is going on in Iraq. We have been through 30 years of internal strife and we know that the arabic and islamic world only respects power.

The major error that transformed the Iraq war from a show of the military might of the United States to a Vietnam-like war is the so-called respect of human rights.

Had the US Army destroyed the pockets of resistance in a show of force crushing them utterly, not taking into consideration the civilian deaths that might occur, the message would have been resounding and the extremist whether Shia or Sunni would have disappeared.

On the other hand the need to keep the civilian casualties to a minimum lead to an increase in the audacity of the extremist.

The same happened in the July war in Lebanon.

I made the Iraq war connection to exlpain that now the iranians believe that they can export the Iraq model to anywhere they have representant;Namely Hizbullah believe firmly that there are no international force that would venture into destroying them because this would lead to civilian collateral casualties.

Letting Hizbullah go on is a direct threat to international security because it would set a precedent to all the extremist organization.

The solution : Destroying Hizbullah in a clear show of military superiority.

Believe me the civilian casualties will be much lower than any dragging war.(Iraq proves it, should the collateral damage had been as high as 10000 death, it would have paled compared to what is happening today!)

I know that the line is very thin between collateral damage and all-out genocide, but i believe that any civilization which was brought up under values which cherish life will know how to react under these conditions.

Who is the US or even the UN to decide the fate of middle eastern countries? As a Lebanese Christian I am completely against any disarming of Hizbullah at this stage and under such circumstances. If another war threats Lebanon you want to fight Israel with small stones! Hizbullah fighters have been sacrifycing their lives to defend Lebanon. Hassan Nasrallah is a true patriotic leader unlike those war criminals like jajjaa, walid jumblatt and their corrupted allies.

in answering Paul.I dont think you have any Idea about Lebanon.Hizbollah was not planted in Lebanon.Hizbollah is as Lebanese as the ceders of Lebanon. they are fighting for their country against an occupier, in this case Israel.I see you have that Rambo mentality of destroying .you said that Arabs and Muslims only respect power.I did not see them respecting your power in Iraq,or Somalia, or Lebanon.you ran away from Somalia and Lebanon we are waiting for you running out of Iraq.your standing behind Israel did not frighten the Palestinians.after sixty years they are still fighting you in Palestine I can name you few other places that your power was useless.you throw more bombs in Afghanistan in one week than in the whole of the second world war, the Afghani are still fighting. Wake up Rambo.

We all shall blame USA and the Israeli policies for all these atrocities and unrests in Lebanon, Occupied Palestine, Iraq and else where in the world just simply for their own benifits and never and do care about other people's life and interest.

I strongly believe that Hezbollah is a resistant movement not a terrorist and simply defending themselves and their beloved country, Mr. Hassan Nasrallh is a peace loving political figure in Lebanon, Middle East and in the whole world.

Israel could have finished the job off but they care too much trying not to harm innocent civilians behind whom the Hizbollah terrorists hide. If only the world wasn't so weak to give in to Hizbollah.

in answer to 2.13pm.of course Israel cares for innocent life that is the life of Jewish citizens of Israel.of course the Palestinians are not humans according to Zionists.because their children and infants are being killed every day by Israeli soldiers 400 children under 16 years of age, and 40 under the age of 6 years, and 11 infants under 6 months of age, were killed by Israeli soldiers in the last three years.Qana 1 , and Qana 2 are still very fresh memory.I wonder what Israel would have done if they dont care about innocent life.

It truly blows me away when I hear people defending Nasrallah and Hezbollah. Are they joking? The man is evil, plain and simple. He is possessed by the devil. He wants to see death and destruction, he's a Hitler with a beard. What is wrong with his followers, are they so blind and brainwashed that they will do whatever he tells them to do! Don't they have any sense of right and wrong. How can anyone say to themselves, 'oh yeah, I want to belong with them' maybe O.J.!

8.13pm, why do think Palestinian children are unfortunately killed? The cowardly terrorists hide among them. The fact that Israel defends her citizens is the difference between Israel and terrorist organizations for whom power and destruction is more important than peace and protecting innocent civilians.

to 3.38 am.was the terrorists hiding behind the mother and her four children killed two weeks ago? was the terrorist hiding behind the family of seven that were killed on the beach in Gaza? was the terrorist hiding behind the 3 day old baby that was killed in her home?I can go on and on.the fact is Israel is killing children all the time there are thousand of pictures to prove that.I have seen hundreds of video clips like millions of others saw about targeting children and breaking their arms with stones.was the terrorist hiding behind aldora when he was shot in front of million of people around the world watching? denying these facts will not take you anywhere the fact is all these crimes are documented.

2.10, if you knew the real facts, you'd find that, yes, terrorists were outside the home of the mother and her 4 children and it was their explosives that killed the family. The ordinance that exploded on the beach in Gaza 2 years ago was not Israeli but Palestinian. Mohammad a Dura was not shot by the IDF and it is likely the whole event was staged. Terrorists do hide among the innocent population because they know Israel is reluctant to attack them there.

to 3.48 am.denial will not give you peace and security.you might think that your words will fool some people but you are wrong ,we are in 2008 not 1948 people know every thing that is happening under occupation so you are just fooling your self .you can not deny documented facts.

The govenrnment had done well to stand out of the way while Israeli troops tried to get rid of Hezbollah, do the job for them without starting a civil war.

I have lived in Lebanon for 16 years and I am beginning to feel no sympathy when civilian areas are attacked because Hezbollah don't fight like an army and don't wear military uniforms. They are civilians one minute and as soon as shots are fired, they strap on their ammo belts on their Armani jeans and their AK47s hang off their Hilfiger tops. But when a whole bunch of them get taken out by the Israeli military, they're back to being innicent civilians?!?

Are they too chicken to stay in barracks like the rest of the world's armies? They don't follow rules of engagement so there should not be any reserve when attacking them and their hidouts. It's their own fault if they put their weapons in the same room as their 8 kids and use their kitchen as a launch site!

I am against Israeli policies, but this is getting rediculous! The whole country has to follow Nasralla's mood swings! He claims a victory over Israel in 2006 but they would have never attacked if you disbanded your bunch of "abadayet"(thugs). Lebanon would get back it's border an life would go on, if there's any issues then let a united Lebanese Army do their job! Jordan doesn't have issues, Egypt doesn't have issues! Syria is doing nothing! If they want a fight then get a one way ticket to Iran for you and your boys and send us the bill! Fight from there.

Lebanese sons are being drafted every year to protect the country, the whole point of drafting the men is to bring them together, unite them, stop the stupid religious mentality from breaking society. If the "shabeb"(guys) are brought up together then they'll be true brothers in the next generation.

People can make up their own minds, just saying what I feel. I'm sure there are similar posts on some other news site where the exact opposite is being promoted and agreed, I'm sure someone is chanting for division and has his buddies patting him on the back for being "right".

Anyway, keep an open mind, and don't pull any triggers, the average person just wants a salary, a home, and to see their kids graduate and tell their grandchildren stories one day...