BEIRUT - While Hezbollah occupied the Beirut city center in an attempt to bring down the government, I teamed up with my American friend Noah Pollak, who works as assistant editor at Azure Magazine in Jerusalem, and took a trip to Hezbollah's stronghold in South Lebanon. We wanted to survey the devastation from the July War and see if we could find civilians who had been used as human shields by the Party of God.
Before we went to the south, however, Noah wanted to meet Hezbollah members downtown. He had never been to Lebanon before, and I was happy to show him around and introduce him to the "party" that fired missiles in our direction when we covered the July War together from the Israeli side of the border.
He arrived in Beirut at 2:00 a.m. His taxi driver took him alongside the edge of Hezbollah's downtown encampment. Even in the middle of the night demonstrators were out the streets screaming slogans.
"What are they saying?" Noah said to the driver.
The driver rolled down his window and told the demonstrators an American was in the car and wanted to know what they were saying. One of the men in the street came up to the taxi.
"We will cut Seniora," he said, referring to Lebanon's elected prime minister. "We will cut him!"
Noah laughed to himself and knew he had come to Lebanon at the right time.
Middle-east is such an awkward place
Brown white trash. All of em. The switch & bait politics, the blind greedy adherence to whoever will ply you with free likker, the absolute physical and moral laziness...
Jesus. I grew up in northern rural California and I know the breed well -- it's all God's will or somebody else's fault, and the world done us wrong, and so we're entitled to every weaselly trick that'll get us up one on the folks we don't like, which is pretty much everybody outside the family.... And the only ones that show any drive or organization or ingenuity are the ones who steal cars or grow pot.
I used to be a dyed-in-the-woolens liberal, and now I have to work so hard to keep from hating them. Cause I know exactly who they are. Brown white trash. Rotten to the core. Someone should explain to them, soon, that if they keep letting the Islamic KKK treat the rest of us like a bunch of nigras -- and then run to hide behind them -- that there's a good chance they'll die with them, the day a nuke goes off in LA or Seattle or New York. The folks in Dresden were nice peaceful townies who let their white trash run amok, too. They were white middle-class Protestants just like us. They had lots of nice classical architecture, too. It didn't save them.
Brown white trash. God damn them.