Who Let Whom Down... the People or the Homeland?

Al Liwaa: Whenever I meet a Lebanese person abroad and the conversation turns to the homeland, the same phrase is repeated, with sorrow tinged with bitterness: “Lebanon let us down... It left us no choice but to leave.” And each time, I ask myself: Did Lebanon really let us down, or did we, in one way or another, contribute to letting it down? The homeland is not a government…
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