[BRIEF NOTE] On Lebanon

[rfmcdonald]

One of the many sad things about the ongoing Israeli-Lebanon war, apart from its blighting of the promise of last year's Cedar Revolution and its risk of spiralling into a much larger war, is how it has demonstrated that all of the governments and state-like entities of the Middle East agree that the people unfortunate enough to be their subjects are best used as, if not excuses, tinder. The cannibals.