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| By Pepe Escobar |
And yet, digging deeper, we find that negligence and corruption may have been fully exploited, via sabotage, to engineer it.
Lebanon is prime John Le Carré territory. A multinational den of spies of all shades – House of Saud agents, Zionist operatives, “moderate rebel” weaponizers, Hezbollah intellectuals, debauched Arab “royalty,” self-glorified smugglers – in a context of full spectrum economic disaster afflicting a member of the Axis of Resistance, a perennial target of Israel alongside Syria and Iran.
As if this were not volcanic enough, into the tragedy stepped President Trump to muddy the – already contaminated – Eastern Mediterranean waters. Briefed by “our great generals,” Trump on Tuesday said: “According to them – they would know better than I would – but they seem to think it was an attack.”
Trump added, “it was a bomb of some kind.”
Was this incandescent remark letting the cat out of the bag by revealing classified information? Or was the President launching another non sequitur?
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Forget all the conspiratorial conjectures about, for example, the ammoinium nitrate being stored for use by Syrain rebels, Wesley Clarke's alleged "7 countries in 5 years" and US attacks on Syria's organic wheat; the Beirut Blast and the crimibnal negligecne around it was thre consequecence of a system of govern,mwent in which sectarian and tfribal elkites (including Hezbollah) rule clientistically in the interests of their tribes not the public interest; dispensing favours, contracts, jobs and everytnhing else in the pork barrel.
ReplyDeleteA warnming to what might happen (Heaven forbid) in NI if it continues with simkilar sectarian governance.