متمردو حزب العمال الكردستاني يبدأون انسحابهم من تركيا الى شمال العراق

100% charbel. Everyone can put their political stuff in order and focus on the economy and think about growth. We cant. because we have an adventuresome milicia that takes up every cause in the region and sticks us inside.

-F.T. between 1990 and 2005 lebanon was indeed focusing on the economy. There was a lot of corruption, a lot of theft, especially from hariri's entourage (RIP), and Berri. But the country was doing projects, building infrastructure.
Today, apart from the oil and gas efforts of the FPM (credit to Bassil here), noone is doing shit. The only thing we hear is HA wants to destroy Israel, HA wants to liberate palestine, HA wants to send drones, HA wants to give his opinion in bahrain, HA is suspect in bulgaria, HA wants to fight syria, And now we have new cartoon characters such as assir who want to also undermine the state.
This puts us in a conflict with our neighbors. Compare that to the UAE for example, who have policy of no politics, focus on economy...