“…it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.” First published 230 years ago in 1788, this sentence from the lead paragraph in a very early American op-ed still holds water today. Even, or especially, when looking at Lebanon in 2018. A little over 20 years ago, a number of young enterprising Lebanese minds returned to their home country. They came back with three mental assets: their advanced education from universities in Europe, the US, and Canada, the determination to work for the improvement of Lebanon toward a country that can deliver on its economic and societal potentials, and the awareness that Lebanon needed
