the lebanese parliament has taken a position that essentially relegates themselves to a dhimmi group in the arab league. they just want to pay the mob bosses to leave them alone. this is a historical position, as lebanon has lived under muslim rule for centuries. the lebanese are used to this. but it's not acceptable; it's a cop-out.

if lebanon wants to be a country, it needs to have a monopoly on violence in it's own borders.

if it refuses to do that, it can't be a country and will need to be partitioned. the time for holding on to empty rhetoric about "territorial integrity" is past. a country that cannot defend itself is not sustainable and cannot exist.

if canada wants to actually help, it should be sending soldiers to lebanon to train the military. at the end of the day, it is the lebanese that will need to stop paying the jizya, take up arms and defeat hezbollah, or we will need to stop pretending that lebanon is a country, and do away with it.

if canada wants to help, it has the expertise to help train the lebanese. that is what they need. not food.

lebanon is not a third world country. it's considered middle income. they can grow food. they have jobs.

they need help fighting the fuckers, not help feeding their people.

canada is the pathetic sick man of the oecd, writing checks for charitable donations across the world to generate respect and seek influence, and getting nothing but contempt in return.

there's lots of wealth in this world. the world doesn't need wealth. it needs leadership. we don't have it.

they don't need our money. we need our money.

i would support sending canadian soldiers to lebanon to fight hezbollah before i would support throwing money at empty attempts at philanthropy that will do nothing to stabilize the region.

i don't think that sending $40 million in aid to lebanon is very high impact, especially if it's for food. they're not experiencing a famine in lebanon and the people being moved out are not being blockaded. rather, this is the kind of stupid, self-serving philanthropy intended for domestic audiences to feel good about themselves that has given canada a low level of global respect. it does nothing to address any issue of substance or concern about iranian terrorist proxies in the region and the money will in all likelihood just end up stolen by corrupt elements of the organized crime networks in the region.

that money would have been better distributed to build housing for refugees in canada.

but, if the canadian government wants to do something in the world instead of something here, which i may strongly suggest it should reanalyze it's priorities around, it should be sending resources to help fight the terrorist networks, not basically funneling them money. 

lebanon certainly has some problems, but they don't need food. they need guns to fight off hezbollah with.