independence is not always good.

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A lot of Filipinos similarly feel that they would have been better off if they had not become independent of the USA.

For one thing, the Philippines has had a long history of corrupt governments, and they feel that if they had remained under the USA then the level of corruption that they experienced would not have been allowed.

For another thing, a lot of Filipinos want to migrate to the USA, which would have been a lot easier if they had not become independent.

Interesting pov.

The real problem is that Lebanon, like most countries in both the Mideast and in Africa is an artificial creation. Different ethnic groups forced together in a shot gun wedding by foriegn powers into one geographic unit thats called upon to function as a nation.

In the Middle East only Iran, Egypt, Turkey, and Israel, are real nations ( and even each of them have fringe minority groups).

Like Iraq, Lebanon is a jury rigged juristiction created when the European powers divied up the old Ottoman Empire at the end of the first World War.

But its alot smaller than Iraq. In fact its even slightly smaller than Israel.
So its both jury-rigged AND small.

As I understand it the Muslims populaton grew and came to outnumber the Christian population and bang- in the seveneties the country suffered a terminal identity crises in the form of a civil war.
Like you said- it been a battle ground not only for its own factions -but for the armies of Syria, Israel, and the PLO.

So you're suggesting that the cure for this disease is - a return to the very cause of the disease!
A return to Colonialism.

Oddly enough I can see your logic. The Christian groups would be happy under French rule. The Muslims concievably might be presuaded to accept it as well if they were enfranchised into the French welfare state. You know your muslim neighbors better than I do. But the growing arab muslim population in France itsself seems to have problems integrating.

I dunno.