Beirut R.I.P.

just getting over a shitty shitty summer cold that is only enhanced by +100F weather... upper respiratory, sore throat, runny nose...should give me a reason to quit smoking but someone I bypassed that and have still been feeling like shit, I need a new date to quit... shit I need a date...

the middle east is fucked.. israel is destroying the entire infrastructure of beirut and lebanon in general. right when things were being rebuilt and the lebanese government was trying to get established, it will now be overtaken by islamic radicals, just like every other country in the middle east.

I mean beirut was the city of all cities in the middle east, I know of many arabic friends of mine who's parents had their honeymoons in beirut. it was known as the "paris of the middle east" because it was the most advanced culturally and artistically in the middle east and had the most intellectuals, to bad it is blown back to the stone age, ripe for the picking by islamic extremists.

this is where israel's fatal flaw is(just like the US's fatal flaw with terrorism)
bombing a place into submission does not get rid of terrorists...it makes more terrorists. I truly believe israel should have a country that is safe from outside attackers, but it needs to become smarter. how in the hell do you stop people from hating you?

I mean everyone hates the US and we keep on fucking with the world
if we sincerely did one thing whole-hearted for the middle east or the muslim community in the world, maybe there would be less of them trying to kill us
maybe not, but we have tried this bombing bullshit for 20 years now