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We went to Beirut to film a TV show about the city's newly vibrant culinary and cultural scene. Then the bombs started falling, and we could only stand on the barricades of our hotel balcony and watch it all disappear -- again.
  • Waiting for Lebanon to fold...

    So much reporting has focused on the plight of the Israelis, the bind they are in, and how they need to protect themselves by moving into Lebanon. This article, from the heart of Beirut, by a reporter who is becoming enamored of the city, further supports the Israeli response...do the Lebanese need rescuing from themselves (and, of course, Syria)? How pathetic George Bush, and by extension, all of us in the US, must look to both the Israelis and the Lebanese...unable to tune in to the potentiality of a massacre, starting in Lebanon and spreading to Iran and beyond...we need a regime change of our own...2008 seems like a long way off...