The US government goes on a media blitz today with both the NYTimes (I'll not bother post their story here, ... it hides the fact that whatever happened in Beirut was a bout of violence with US-proxy militias taking part) ....and the Washington Post here.
".....Assem Salam was a young man when a Sunni Muslim and Maronite Catholic politician forged a compromise that inaugurated modern Lebanon in 1943. Shiites were hardly a factor.
An iconoclast for a man who hails from one of the country's best-known Sunni families, he said he would now welcome a Hezbollah victory, as long as it meant stability. "I really don't care anymore," he said. "Is Lebanon viable anymore?" he asked. "Is Lebanon really viable?"
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