الراعي أمل ان تشكل مبادرة السعودية للجيش فاتحة مبادرات سياسية بلبنان

When $3 billion is granted there are always conditions. Even Naharnet mentioned that the first anti aircraft fire against Syrian aircraft was shortly after this offer.

For you to insinuate that there were no preconditions is either disingenuous or naive. We shall see just how Suleiman behaves over these next days and weeks ...

That is because you march in lockstep with the KSA Wahabbi ... Not many Sunnis left that would dare to contradict anything that the KSA said ... The purge of moderate and secular Sunnis is well underway.

FT the fact that the 3 billion doesn't pass through the lebanese government is not even close to being a bad thing. less for them to pillage. i know that this is bad news for you since im sure 3amo bassil would have thrown in a new years bonus for you to keep spewing garbage on this website.

bad news for you Suleiman is staying or being replaced with someone exactly like him. 3aw-3aw-3awn will never see the chair again in his life.

FT, I don't expect any weapon producing nation to share its latest technology with a nation who is no more than a friendly country. The U.S. may share such with Israel (and I am not so sure since I don't have personal knowledge) but I don't think the U.S. will do so "welly nelly". We should also be extremely distraught if indeed KSA circumvented the Lebanese government and made the deal directly with France. I truly don't know, but did Iran ask the Lebanese government, got permission/authorization, during whatever state she was in, when they not only gave weapons to H.A. but also built an army outside the State? These foreign interests can do exactly "this" and more to Lebanon, but not the Lebanese people in general. Why? All you have to do is look at our paid politicians. More like shortsighted, oppressive billionaires who allotted membership in government portfolios and parliament.

FT: Of course there are conditions embedded with this 3 billion dollar gift. I prediction comes from my assessment that the so called moderate (in the context of Islam) M14 members who care about their pockets are not there to fight and challenge another foreign extremist movement that has infested the country. I am talking about the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this state of hell that Lebanon has been in, moderates by themselves can not survive unless we align ourselves with a super power that prays for the money like Israel has, and is prospering very nicely from our weaknesses and expense. I am not necessarily mean the U.S. So, nature takes its course, and the other side automatically toughens up with extremist agenda. My view.

Flametroglodyte - HA is still being armed by Iran today.

so a foreign country is arming a group to become more powerful than the army - a group that is not under the control of elected officials. of course to a contrarian democracy-hating intellectually bankrupt senile fool like you this is not a bad thing.

FT: But those other factions gave up their arms, and H.A. is still being replenished by Iran.