We've seen a lot of politicians, journalists and analysts claim recently that we should be promoting Lebanon as a touristic destination now that the lira has devaluated and the dollar is worth four times as much as it was worth few months back. While it's truly that future tourists will have a much higher purchasing power with their Dollars, Euros & Riyals, promoting Lebanon as a tourist attraction at this moment might backfire big time.…

A day before the October Revolution started, Lebanon was ravaged by fires that went out of control. Meanwhile, the incompetent authorities had just found out that their fire-fighting helicopters weren't working. Why? Incompetence and negligence as usual. Instead of figuring out a way to fix these helicopters, the government has opted this week to auction them along with five Hawker Hunters. The decision was taken to secure enough funds to buy new firefighting helicopters but…