The Solution?

One very persistent blog-reader has been asking me again and again, in a very sincere fashion, what I think is the solution to this crisis.

Honestly. I'm at a place where I don't see one.

I would really, really like to believe that there will be a cease-fire and de-escalation on both sides. And that this international peacekeeping force (which will really be some private company hired out of Virginia or England or South Africa) will be able to keep Hizballah rockets from firing into Israel and keep Israeli soldiers out of Lebanon. Even though, as I said before, UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon) has been there since 2000.

But it doesn't look likely. These leaders need to save face now. As long as there's pride and elections and legitimate self-defense involved, neither side will back down.

Maybe I'm moving back into paranoia, but I think they'll be serious, scary weapons now--biological, chemical, nuclear. I pray that it doesn't happen.

But now I wish I could get every single one of my friends out of there.

I was disgusted by the idea of the evacuation before. Thinking that if those foreigners who the world seemed to care about were still there that would stop Israel from completely decimating the country. Now, it's clear. The US isn't going to do anything. I think it's going to be disgusting.

Now that I'm here in the U.S. I see that most people don't even know what Lebanon is. They don't care. Of course, I'm at the center of my own world, and the people I know who read this blog are there with me.

But really if say something really, really bad happened there, it will go in the history books, another Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And that will be that.

I wish they could all just leave.

They bombed north of Jounnieh today. That's a Christian area. A friend in Beirut left because now Beirut isn't safe. But she knows--no where is safe. That bombing cut off the northern exit route to Syria. There is no getting out. And there's a petrol crisis.

So now the foreigners are out. The escape routes are all down.

Now what's going to happen??

I can't think about this.