Here is what General Aoun said in 2005:
Quote:
13. Juin. 2005 Naharnet: Aoun shot back from his Rabieh mansion. "This human being is very dangerous. Instead of gracefully accepting defeat, he reacts with violent threats. This is a political contest. We're not fighting a shooting war and we hope Jumblat would return to his senses and abstain from warlike sectarian agitation," the General said.
"The true man is the one who knows how to lose, not how to win," Aoun went on at an overnight news conference. "We have long endured the loss in our life and we take victory with the same stance. Let me remind Jumblat of Kipling's poem."
Aoun said he was willing to talk with other groupings in the new parliament and, if there were no agreement, he and his allies would be in the opposition "carrying out our duties."
|
[IF]
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
Back in 2005 G. Aoun spoke about the MAN WITH VIRTUE.
Today VIRTUE is required. Will G. Aoun today address this poem to FPM as he did in 2005 when he addressed it to Jumblatt?
12th October 2009
