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Sami Halabi is Director of Policy at Badil | The Alternative Policy Institute, a Beirut-based think-tank.
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Joseph Aoun, Lebanon's new president, inherits a broken system; his actions will dictate whether he is a reformer or just another general, says Sami Halabi.