Word: beirutization
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...life things go wrong. And when that happens to soldiers and spooks, Clancy says, "very often you get hung out to dry. All those Marines who got blown up in Lebanon got hung out to dry. William Buckley, the CIA officer who got captured by the bad guys in Beirut, was hung out to dry. We do that a lot; it's probably the most despicable thing our Government can do. But it happens, and that's what I decided to write about...
...southern Lebanese town of Qleia, houses shook from the blast of a bomb attack on an Israeli convoy that wounded five soldiers and one militiaman from the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army. "We'll show them that we are hard food to chew," proclaimed Hizballah's military chief in Beirut. Other terrorists sought revenge for the humiliation of Obeid's kidnaping...
Hama Rules are the only ones that apply in the Middle East, but the U.S. cannot understand them. Players obeying the Hama Rules orchestrated the 1983 suicide truck bombing attack on U.S. marines stationed in Beirut. Even Israel follows the rules--it invited Phalangist militia into the Lebanese towns of Sabra and Shatila and failed to stop the massacre of up to 1000 people...
Sabra and Shatila was something of a personal crisis for me. The Israel I had met on the outskirst of Beirut was not the heroic Israel I had been taught to identify with. It was an Israel that talked about purity of arms' to itself, but in the real world had learned to play by Hama Rules, like everyone else in the neighborhood...
...Jerusalem, Friedman finds the same governmental paralysis as in Beirut. But this time it is caused by unity, not factionalism...