BEIRUT – During his visit this month, French President Emmanuel Macron gave Lebanon’s politicians a road map for policy changes and reform, set deadlines for them to take action and told them he’d be back in December to check on progress.It was a hands-on approach that angered some in Lebanon and was welcomed by others.
And it revived a bitter question in the tiny Mediterranean country: Can Lebanese rule themselves?Lebanon’s ruling class, in power since the end of the civil war in 1990, has run the tiny country and its population into the ground.