I ask this because frankly, what’s happening there is scaring the crap out of me. There are some incredibly knowledgeable folks who blog here who know far more about the current state of global politics than I do.
What are we thinking? What do we do? What can we do?
I do a lot of shlepping and have just good old analog FM in my car, so I’m mostly listening to NPR. Some of you may know that Diane Rehm is Lebanese. She sounded downright frightened and kind of desperate today – asking her guests, what will become of Lebanon and even saying at one point, with great, what sounded to me to be sincere emotion, “Poor Lebanon.”
It is so dramatically different in that region then when I was there in the mid-80s.
Anyone? I’m opening this up for thoughts, venting, reflection.
Here are some of the latest reports (chosen from results from a Google news search on “lebanon”):
Hezbollah takes charge of half of Beirut (Globe and Mail)
Hezbollah Shuts Down Future Media (Variety)
An editorial in The Guardian to be published tomorrow
The Lesson of Lebanon (Commentary Magazine)
And, for pretty gripping moment by moment coverage from what appears to be inside Beirut, Blogging Beirut
What are you reading, who are you following, what do you find convincing, what more should we be asking, what else can be done, what should be done?
Sigh.