YouTube is a great site. I’ve seen videos thay have ranged from the hilarious to the downright terrible; a feature of user-driven content. Perhaps another feature is that everyone who posts video is merely trying to become the most popular user by appealing to the masses, usually through comedy, which is why it is rare to find incredible quality and depth of message in a site where so much time is dedicated to making people laugh.

Here at Publius, not only did we extensively cover the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, which revealed a strong desire in its public for a liberal and democratic society, but we predicted its inevitability. Yet, with the Hezbollah-Israeli war and the terrorist group’s rising power, along with that of Syria and Iran (again), the episode unfolding as Lebanon begins to lose its precious and young democracy is nothing short of heart-breaking. Admittedly, I have not written about Lebanon for awhile for this very reason. However…

The following YouTube video is something that everyone should watch. Not just everyone, but every last man, woman, and child in Lebanon who cares about Lebanon. While I’m sure many Lebanese have seen it before the video even made it to YouTube, its a reminder to them that Lebanon, just like an America, is an idea and a dream of the people who live in it, and not just the war-zone that its political leaders have made it into.

The end: “When will we become Lebanese?”