Beirut Bay
Tall and lean Dr Mel was visiting professor in English Literature from American University in Beirut. Taking a Seminar towards my Masters, I was the reigning Beauty Queen at Ben Gurion University of the South. To my dismay, he impressed me much more than I him. At my student interview, he suggested for me to go to Brandeis to study Jewish Literature.
Beauty for Its Own Sake
Dr Mel often had odd notions unique interpretations. He brightened when he related his Beirut intellectual pursuits never once about his colleagues murdered or kidnapped held hostage. It just wasn't in him.
The Land of Fruit had become elusive to him the everlasting temptress. After class one day I told him this story.
In the
Halfway across the water the spider stung the frog. As they were drowning, the frog asked. "Why did you sting me?"
"This is the
Mel's Family
This likeness resembles what I remember of them. Back in the USA his lovely wife committed suicide unable to transplant her life from Lebanon. Dr Mel remains with me in memory and in this fragment.
The young poor and stupid fight the wars because they are young poor and stupid. In many nations, it's the only paying job they can get. The parents are old poor and stupid. They flubbed their chances to make a peaceful world many times constantly throughout their lives. They were too dumb lazy or afraid to stand on their feet to be counted as human beings with rights.
Now they cry, "Boo hoo. My daughter is a sex slave. Boo hoo! They bombed my house. Boo hoo! They beheaded my husband."
What did they expect?
From Don't Tread on Me Terrorist
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The Civil War destroyed the Lebanon he knew and he was in physical danger. He tried to deal with this madness, but for all his sophistication [or maybe because of it] he could not.
Beirut has the appearance of Haifa or San Francisco, but all that beauty is a frightfully thin venir. If you rip it away, you return to the eighth century raw savage and uncivilized.
When the spider stung the frog, it was Mutually Assumed Destruction. The Palestinians had a country {Gaza] wonderful vacation potential with gorgeous beaches. Why did they jeopardize all that for one day of venomous frolic. Was killing two Israeli Soldiers wounding one and taking another worth losing their country? We say not because we live in the 21st century. They say yes because we live in the eighth century.
Rather than a clash of cultures it's more a 1300-year time warp.
They want to drag us down into the Dark Ages.
We won't allow this to happen.
Question? Do you agree with what some US person's have stated that this latest crises was orchestrated by Iran? I heard one person say that Hezbollah, being religious zealots, take their orders from only religious authorities who are located in Iran. Do you feel that this view is correct? I am interested in hearing your views.[SMILE][SMILE]
My friends and I worked out our own theory about the war. Iran holds the purse strings for the terrorists and gave thousands of missiles to them. We think Iran cut back on the food money [welfare] they were giving Gaza. Hamas decided they could get more money [notice] if they attacked Israel. Hamas upstaged Hezbollah and reminded everybody they had been inactive since 2000. Embarrassed, the Hezbollah didn't inform Lebanon before they opened up at us. As a courtesy, they would have informed Syria and Iran they were invading us. I think both countries would prefer to have nuclear weapons before they warred on us. It's possible that Syria has WMD from Saddam. In any case, the Syria and Iran armies combined could overwhelm us [kill all of us] if they could get close enough to us to fight. Before this could happen, we would decimate their armies with tactical nuclear weapons their cities and oilfields with neutron bombs.
I think in this case the tail [terrorists] is wagging the dog [Iran].[COOL]
I am ashamed by some of my countrymen who blame Israel for this current problem. I wonder how they would react if their homes were destroyed and loved ones were killedby a totally unprovoked act of senseless aggression?