[Zhangliqun]

Lebanon is an Innocent bystander and a powerless bystander. However, the root cause of the problem is the U. S. refusal to support Lebanon's democracy when Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon. We could have been the sponsor of aid, rebuilding, etc. in southern Lebanon instead of Hezbollah.

The root cause is blind, psychotic Islamo-fascist hatred of Jews. As long as they are teaching their children that Jews are pigs worthy only of extermination, we could have run a Marshal Plan in southern Lebanon and nothing would change. Spiritual and moral illnesses require spiritual and moral solutions, not money dropped out of a passing plane.

[upcountryhorseman]

This is not the case in Lebanon. Half of the country is
Christian, the rest are Druse, Coptic, Greek Orthodox and
Muslim. The American University in Beirut has facilitated
understanding between the Middle East and the West since
the late 1800's.