DEMOCRACY and the FREE WILL of the people worked marvels there, whereas the lack thereof in other Middle East countries continues to hold them back from achieving greater success. What did those do in Lebanon? it craeted a disastorous civil war, brought the country under the influence of Syria and Israel and was reduced tothe status of a pawn in the grand chess game between Syria and Israel (for regional hegemony?). Even today the economy is no different than the Russian mafia style economy... people are still angry and are yet to recover fully from the civil war. So what success you see in today's Lebanon? I don't see any.