Out Of Beirut

[plumtreeblossom]

Bourdain and his crew were among those evacuated from Beirut this week:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20701101.htm

He has a melodramatic streak (known for utterances such as "If you put ketchup on that I will fucking kill you"), but this time I really feel for him. It's hard to break a heart that leathery, but witnessing this did him in.

Comments

[desultor.livejournal.com]

nah, i don't feel that bad for him. i feel bad for all the people that aren't rich americans, the ones who actually live in beirut who are seeing their home bombed to shit. to the extent that bourdain can help point out how horrible it is and make people aware, okay, and i wouldn't want him to be hurt or anything. but i can't really feel bad for him.

[tcb.livejournal.com]

cool. I'd been vaguely wondering. thanks for the update.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I just read that article, and the part that truly gets me is the thought that there was this city in the middle east that was becoming all the things that the western world had hoped a middle eastern city could become, and now not only is it being destroyed, so is any hope of it recovering for many years, and along with it any hope of other cities achieving those goals. With the events of the last week, it has been pretty much guaranteed that the chaos will continue to destabilize the region.

Perhaps it's naive of me, but I believe that if enough people in power truly wanted peace, there would be peace, or at least there would be progress toward it. There are too many people with some kind of vested interest in continuing strife, though. Ugh.