In my book there is a story called “John and Elena.” Elena was a pretty young Lebanese woman, a friend of ours. John was an American Marine from Minnesota. The two of them were the poignant center of my account of an event that shook both Lebanon and America and has not ended even yet. […]
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Jim Clancy was in Beirut the other day. This is the same Jim Clancy who lived in a hotel in East Beirut back in the 1980s during the civil war in Lebanon. He was a CNN correspondent then, a good one. In fact, he just recently retired from CNN, and he was in Lebanon to […]
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Invited to be present as a small book club met to discuss “In Borrowed Houses,” I answered some question by explaining that in Lebanon all the big political leaders had their own militias. The group could easily see that this created a ready-made civil war situation, and this caused a few people to feel immediately […]
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February 18, 2015 A CNN poll has come up with an astonishing statistic: 62% of the American people want the US to be neutral in Middle East conflicts! For fourteen years this country has been sending its young people into Afghanistan and Iraq to kill or be killed. We have been fighting dictators, defending the […]
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