lebanon should not be a failed state, held hostage and overrun by foreign muslims trying to colonize it. lebanon should be a stable, modern, secular european state and it should aspire to join the eu by 2050, before the turks do. it should have prosperous western cities. both lebanon's history and it's future are in the west, but it must be as a sovereign state that can defend itself from invaders coming from it's east, and not as a colony of the european powers.