A fragile year for Lebanon’s president amid global earthquakes

A year into the term of Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, the debate rages on amid a political environment that can hardly agree on a vision or an approach and a population that harsh experiences have not taught the importance of reaching a bare minimum consensus. Today, Lebanon’s problems seem like a drop in the ocean of the region’s troubles and indeed the troubles of the world as a whole. Let us begin with our immediate surroundings and then move farther afield: geographically, no countries are closer to Lebanon than Syria and Israel.