[PREV - SAVAGE_NIRVANA]    [TOP]

GLASS_BUBBLE

                                              November 19, 2006

From Robert Fisk's

  PITY_THE_NATION


    "So long has it continued that now it is difficult to
    think of a Beirut that is not at war.  Live there
    for a few months and you begin to see it as the
    Lebanese do.  You come to regard the city as a
    normal metropolis; visit Europe, fly into Geneva or
    Paris, and you feel as if you have entered a glass
    bubble, an artificial world totally divorced from the
    'real' existence of power-cuts and burning garbage
    heaps and gunmen and constant political instability."

         -- p.94




--------
[NEXT - SMEAR_THE_MESSENGER]