Word: beirutization
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...chosen entryway was Hurlbut 3/4, and endless late-night antics have earned its residents some perks. For one thing, Howard Dean has personally endorsed their Beirut table...
...LEBANON: There are six resorts, of varying degrees of difficulty, on Mount Lebanon?all within a two-hour drive of Beirut. The best-equipped is Faraya-Mzaar, with 42 slopes, 15 lifts and almost unlimited off-piste potential...
...into his office. For Arafat, last week's swap of Palestinian and other Arab prisoners for a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers represents a real problem. The three-year intifadeh has left a power vacuum in the West Bank and Gaza that Hizballah, the Beirut-based, Iranian-backed Shi'ite group, has gradually been filling. The prisoner swap, mediated by Germany, boosts Hizballah's support among Palestinians and illustrates the ineffectuality of Arafat's regime, which has fruitlessly demanded that Israel release Palestinian detainees. "Arafat is scared to death because of what happened between Hizballah...
...course the President cares. Presidents always care. But they can care too much. President Reagan cared desperately, obsessively about the American hostages in Beirut. He sold weapons to Iran, undermined his own war on terrorism and almost destroyed his presidency trying to get the hostages back. It was a terrible mistake. He should have instead adopted a steely callousness and refused to bargain...
...reasons have everything to do with winning the war. The enemy knows America's weakness--a general aversion to war, stemming largely from a profound concern for the individual. The enemy knows our aversion to casualties led us to withdraw not just from Vietnam but from Somalia and Beirut, where our losses were infinitely smaller...