Michael Totten has an interesting piece in LA Weekly on his travels in Lebanon and the effects of the Cedar Revolution on people’s hearts and minds:
“The national-unity drive,” Claude said. “That’s why I came out tonight. We are getting close to the war. That’s why the city government is asking us all to come out and return to the nightlife. It pushes the war away.” He took a sip from his martini. “But I don’t believe in it. I want a federal system in Lebanon where Christians are not allowed to enter Muslim areas and Muslims cannot enter Christian areas.”
“That’s not going to happen,” I said.
“I know, I know,” he said. “It is not reality. It is my dream.”
He still waged his own personal war with Muslims in his head. But he was also at war with himself, precariously perched between an ethnic-nationalist fantasy and another, better hope for freedom and democracy for all of Lebanon — including Lebanon’s Muslims.
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