For decades, U.S. policy toward Lebanon has followed the same doomed cycle: polite visits, warm meetings, generous aid packages, and long declarations about reform, sovereignty, and transparency. In return, Washington receives empty promises, beautifully worded communiqués, and a Lebanese political class that smiles for the camera—before returning to the same corruption, paralysis, and Hezbollah-driven submission that brought the country to collapse. Lebanon doesn’t need more American compliments; it needs American consequences. And yet, here we are again.
