[Old Teufel Hunden]

"It’s been my thought that Lebanon has had a death wish for the last twenty years or so."

Twenty years, try thirty five. Their civil war went from 1975 - 1990. The last 20 years have been marked by periods of stability and instability. It's taken a long time for them to rebuild their country from an extremely long civil war. And there's still a lot of tensions within the different groups and outside influences.

[Locomotive Breath]

It really started in 70-71 with the so-called “Black September”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September_in_Jordan

Jordan kicked out the Palestinians and Lebanon took them in. They immediately proceeded to destroy Lebanon.