Posted by Jim Lindgren:
Michael Totten in Lebanon.--
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_05_15-2005_05_21.shtml#1116174875
Michael Totten has an interesting piece in [1]LA Weekly on his travels
in Lebanon and the effects of the Cedar Revolution on people's hearts
and minds:
�The national-unity drive,� Claude said. �That�s why I came out
tonight. We are getting close to the war. That�s why the city
government is asking us all to come out and return to the
nightlife. It pushes the war away.� He took a sip from his martini.
�But I don�t believe in it. I want a federal system in Lebanon
where Christians are not allowed to enter Muslim areas and Muslims
cannot enter Christian areas.�
�That�s not going to happen,� I said.
�I know, I know,� he said. �It is not reality. It is my dream.�
He still waged his own personal war with Muslims in his head. But
he was also at war with himself, precariously perched between an
ethnic-nationalist fantasy and another, better hope for freedom and
democracy for all of Lebanon � including Lebanon�s Muslims.
References
1. http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/25/features-totten.php
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