The World Motivation
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
“The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.”
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
I made the decision when I came to Seagram that it had to be OK that my public persona would be bad. It's the downside of a family business: anything good is because I'm somebody's son; otherwise, I'm a schmuck.
It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
Sometimes I will make the right decision, sometimes I will make the wrong decision.
So yes, European decision making is not pretty. But it does work.
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.