Generations have allowed their citizens to sink into poverty and despair the explosion was a terrible symbol of that neglect the cause a highly volatile quantity of Ammonium Nitrate but it sat for years in a warehouse of port officials warned of the dangers posed mornings but was systematically ignored but would anything change in the aftermath would anyone ever be held to account for and sympathy arrived in the shape of Frances Emanuel macro when he brought an uncompromising message theres no blank check he told people if your Political Class fails we wont come from that part of the state and fail it did days later the government resigned not only did the politicians have no answers they had like so many before the simply given up who would now fill the vacuum. Hello and welcome to this special edition of conflict zone over the last 4 years weve interviewed several senior lebanese politicians about the inexorable breakdown of their economy and their state institutions what they told u