The big Joke

We just love to lose. The sad thing about that is we deny reality and claim to emerge victorious whatever the outcome. While the world sat and watched fellow Lebanese kill one another, the tragic events unfolding in Beirut reminded us of horrible scenes pulled from Lebanon's archives of war. While the rest of the Arab Gulf was enroute to achieving economic milestones, Beirut was drawn into chaos, on the verge of civil war, and soon ran out of tombstones to bury the dead.
Overnight, all changed.
Reconciliation took charge, with opposing sides agreeing on problematic issues, cordial smiles reigned over, and a sence of warmth filled the once-tense atmosphere. For we are all Lebanese, we need one another, we have nobody but each another. That is so true, once you realize everybody is in It for their own personal reasons. Israel and Syria, the United States and Iran were all working the bargaining tables behind the media flare up taking place in Beirut. We were the victims. Not Hizbullah, or the ruling Majority, but Lebanon and what it stood for. What an embarrasment...33 years after '75. Have we not learned a lesson yet?