tick tock

Time, in general, is running out. Papers are piling up, my brother is flying into town and I'm leaving the country within the space of roughly a month. The elections are racing closer and, it seems more and more, nothing has been resolved. The Lebanese Unity that was being praised to the skies a month and a half ago has eroded into an atmosphere of infighting and sectarian lines once again. Geagea's supporters are some of the only ones left in the Tent Village. They want their leader. The Aounists got their man back, so they figure it'll even things out. They talk about uniting the two once the old boy gets out, but I'm really not so sure anymore. Geagea and Aoun fought a bloody, bloody battle for control back at the end of the war and I'm not positive anybody's quite as forgiving as they seemed to be.

Yesterday, the Maronite bishops issued a public statement violently attacking the 2000 election laws, which are looking more and more concrete every day. Many people are beginning to call for a delay in elections before groups begin boycotting them. Jumblatt's pretty much fallen from grace due to his support of the 2000 laws (Aoun didn't even mention him in his returning speech. But he also didn't mention Hariri. He mentioned himself though) and the General's getting pretty close with Hizbollah, despite enormous differences in just about everything.

Lebanese politics. Oh man.