Barrack: Lebanon must resolve its own divisions and reclaim its sovereignty

U.S. envoy Tom Barrack on Wednesday said that “Lebanon must resolve its own divisions and reclaim its sovereignty.”
“On October 23, 1983, 241 U.S. Marines, sailors, and soldiers, 58 French military personnel, and six Lebanese civilians were killed when a suicide bomber destroyed the Marine barracks in Beirut -- one of the deadliest attacks on Americans overseas,” Barrack said in a post on the X platform.
“We honor their memory by remembering the lesson: Lebanon must resolve its own divisions and reclaim its sovereignty. America cannot — and must not — repeat the mistakes of that past,” Barrack added, suggesting that the U.S. must not send any troops to Lebanon.

"On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb exploded at the U.S. Marine barracks at the Beirut International Airport, killing 241 American military personnel. A simultaneous truck bomb attack minutes later killed 58 French paratroopers at their barracks. The troops were part of a multinational peacekeeping force during the Lebanese Civil War." Details, details. By "divisions" does he mean Christian supremacy via Article 24?

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Letter to the editor: Gaining civil rights for Shias should be top priority
Posted February 5, 2015
Noam Chomsky says that Shias are the majority of Lebanon’s population, such that, if free elections were held and if Shias threw all their support to Hezbollah, it could form the government entirely on its own. Yet Article 24 of the Lebanese Constitution reserves half of parliamentary seats for Christians, who number, by my own guess, around a quarter of the population.
Here, in a nutshell, you have the Shia sense of grievance that makes Hezbollah so dynamic a force in politics, and yet also the solution to two problems.
Hezbollah militancy and Lebanese political instability would both be ameliorated if Hezbollah put its main effort into gaining civil rights and political representation for Lebanon’s Shias – and the U.S. could be on the right side of history by aiding that cause.
So go ahead and tell me why not, please.
Christopher C. Rushlau

If by "reclaim its sovereignty" he means along the southern border, then he should have stated outright - Talk with your neighbours, that it the only way.