Leba-gone!
By Matt Coker in A Clockwork Orange
Monday, Jul. 17 2006 @ 4:07PM
USA Today has the story of Jade Jurdi's three-day ordeal to leave bombed-out Lebanon. The 21-year-old Harvard senior grew up in Orange County.
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RP in FV says:
It's a sad story of one American kid who's ambition of hope in his thesis of renewal is vaporised by a conflict that never goes away. After the Hariri assasination just over a year ago, one third of the population of Lebanon celebrated in those same shattered streets the removal of Syrian occupational troops. That's one out of every three Lebanese citizens.
A very close friend of mine spoke to his sister in Beirut on Sunday. She told him there are hundreds of dead bodies in the Beirut hospitals. Not injured, dead. In her opinion, Hezbollah is putting a lid on this information to suppress a public outcry for capitulation. The city, and possibly the whole country has taken a giant, fifteen-year step backward. I'll take this news with a grain of salt, but as in every war that has ever been fought in human history, the truth is always the first casualty.
I don't remember anything about a Beirut exit in George W. Bush's "Road Map to Peace"...
Posted On: Monday, Jul. 17 2006 @ 6:07PM
