Is absolutely right, the elite is running the financial system for themselves propped up from all this money coming in, and when things happened like the big explosion, that deterred the lebanese from sending their money back to lebanon, things started to fall down. it s an extraordinary case of implosion not from war, there is plenty of war in lebanon s background, but from really terrible government. but i think other governments, more stable governments around the world would be very willing to help if, you know, the political parts of lebanon could do the very basics, which is form a government. a very big if, nesrine? even though it s not related to war, the war still casts . quite a long shadow. one of the reasons that - the political class in lebanon is so stuck is it is still- frozen in the configuration they had trying to . maintain the peace. so every kind of religious. ....