A Lebanese leader who sends our youth to fight and die in Syria is a traitor to our nation. Our youth are our future, and anyone who would put guns in their hands and send them to wage a “holy war” in another country is killing Lebanon’s hopes for tomorrow. Ironically, the most sensible voice on the issue seems to be the Free Syrian Army leadership in Turkey, both condemning Hezbollah for sending sons of Lebanon to fight for the Assad regime and rejecting Lebanese Salafists’ calls to jihad across the border. No foreign fighters in Syria, they say. I couldn’t agree more. Imagine if Sunni and Shia religious leaders had instead issued a fatwa making it the duty of every able-minded Muslim to get a university education, or to study a trade. Imagine if, instead of ordering hundreds of young men into a hail of bullets and bombs, those
