Dear Mr. Bassil:

The voters voted and rejected you. They rejected your father in law's claims (sole leader of the Christians). Do you seriously think the voters are going to accept you as the country's Interior Minister replacing the current (untouchable) Interior Minister? The voters understand that this is only a negotiating technique. Ask for the moon settle for Telecom. Ministry.

What you need to do in the next four years is go find a real job in the private sector & leave the governing to professionals. And, if you can persuade your wife's father to gently go into that good night and god forbid not rage against the dying of the light, that would be Swell.

There are plenty of reformers and secularists in all camps and the voters can/will survive without ammo Aoun. Paris is wonderful this time of the year.