The revolts in the many towns and cities of Lebanon are unprecedented. They are true expressions of a young (and not so young) multi-confessional generation that is fed up with the incompetence and decay of State-institutions and, with the unhinged kleptocracy of the ruling class. People have had enough with false excuses hurled at them over decades to justify the lack of public services, the absence of accountability in public office, and the severe social woes that plague the country. Sometimes we were told that it was all caused by the convenient enemy namely, Israel, other times by the inconvenient neighbor that is Syria, more recently by ISIS, and on a more regular occasion it is sectarianism that is singled-out as the root cause of all ills. Whilst such justifications have a modest ring of truth, they are shallow and insufficient to explain the total subjugation of national interests to private profiteering.The political class in Lebanon (although neither political nor having any class) has ran out of excuses and most importantly, out of cash. The little, borrowed, fuel that was so far used to oil the wheels of the cranky economy -made up of costly deposits and remittances from abroad- has dried up. The wheel has, all but too predictably, stopped while crushing many underneath its heavy structure burdened by a mountain of public debt, acute clientelism, high unemployment rate, and rampant graft.Not only is the present devoid of any signs of recovery from its paraplegic state, even the future of the Lebanese seems mortgaged. Apart from long-term debts that need to be repaid by future generations, the prospects of national wealth from recent discoveries of oil and gas have been reportedly wrecked. These newly found riches have allegedly been usurped via shady deals concluded between multinationals (Total and Eni still need to come clean on this) and local business people connected to the despicable Oligarchs-politicians.With a heavy past, a devastated present and, a grim future, the Lebanese had no hope except to revolt and try to break the chains of their servitude.Rightly so, but alas uniquely, the street demands focus on corruption and the ineptitude of the current breed of politicians. Little is being uttered about the present-day enabler, the facilitator and the protector of such degraded ruling class. We use the term ‘present-day’ because at each cycle of corruption stood a different ‘enforcer’ who actively assisted and abated the politicians in their fraudulent schemes. Militias during the civil war (1975 to 1991), the Syrian regime of Assad Sr. then Junior in the immediate post-war era (1992 to 2005), and Hezbollah since 2008 to present day.Whilst the political gang in Lebanon needs no mentor in terms of corrupt practices and no special assistance to commit fraud, it nonetheless requires a protector. The role of the protector is to subdue the State and prevent its institutions (army, civil service, judiciary et al) from fulfilling their natural roles as guardians of a frail democracy, and from prosecuting violations of constitutional texts and principles.  The protector -as in any mafia style society- would in return count on the blind loyalty of such political serfs to further its own strategic aims, and as 'protection money', receive part of the spoils.Lebanese protestors are legitimately concerned about putting bread on the table, not spilling blood onto the streets. They also intimately know that any military confrontation with Hezbollah might quickly and irreversibly escalate into a civil war. No such outcome is good for the protestors or for Lebanon, as a whole. However, any change in the political scenery that does not factor-in the pressing demand of de-militarization of the Hezbollah is doomed to fail. Any new government (even if made up of Nobel Laureates) and any future parliament (even if regrouping Saints) that are required to live with a State within a State,