Lebanon

If you dismiss my last post as folly, consider recent history in the Mideast: once upon a time, after WWII, Lebanon, a peaceful nation with a significant Christian population and culture, opened its gates to refugees from Palestine. Within a decade Eisenhower, in his only foreign military action, had to send in US Marines to evacuate civilians. Within three decades the country was embroiled in the bloody civil war that dominated the news of my youth. The Lebanon of 1950 no longer exists.