Lebanon: Eye Witness

This guy is one lucky son-of-a-bitch. Somehow he survives in the midst of all the devastation.

There is a real sense of panic here among people. The foreigners and young people who have never experienced war are freaked out. And the Lebanese who lived through the civil war and remember it well are freaked out. I seem to be the only one walking around, noting the closed stores and subdued traffic and thinking, “hm, compared to Baghdad, this isn’t so bad.”

I think I was in Iraq too long.

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