Mikati might be part of the old school in Lebanon, but he is a real businessman & made much of his money outside the country. If you *must* stick with the old establishment, he is the most capable of them all.
PS: Mikati is also richer (& more solid businessman) than Trump.
PS: Mikati is also richer (& more solid businessman) than Trump.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1419346726452875266
2) The point is: Lebanon can't afford the stalemate.
You don't pick the least corrupt one, but the one who understands business enough to *not* block the growing adaptation by industry post #RiadPonzi.
Others are both corrupt & stupid: like parasites that kill their host.
You don't pick the least corrupt one, but the one who understands business enough to *not* block the growing adaptation by industry post #RiadPonzi.
Others are both corrupt & stupid: like parasites that kill their host.
3) The Brazilian Paulo Salim Maluf used to say "rouba mas faz": I steal but deliver.
Pbm in Lebanon isn't parasites & corruption.
It is parasites killing their host! Patronage is worse than corruption.
I would settle for a Maluf over both an incompetent but honest technocrat.
Pbm in Lebanon isn't parasites & corruption.
It is parasites killing their host! Patronage is worse than corruption.
I would settle for a Maluf over both an incompetent but honest technocrat.
4) My problem is the surge of statist ideas by young idealists driven by honest-but-incompetent pple such as Charbel Venezuela.
https://twitter.com/fabiozugman/status/1419637507742961670?s=20
5) V. hard to explain to the Lebanese what Burkean means: preferring the English approach of careful progression to the French/Russian/Iranian revolutions.
I have a longer post abt the elimination of benign corruption via Soviet-style technocracies, & the choice of evils.
I have a longer post abt the elimination of benign corruption via Soviet-style technocracies, & the choice of evils.
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