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Reports say that the U.S. is lagging in its efforts to evacuate 8,000 Americans from Lebanon. Additionally, the State Department is coming under fire for asking Americans to reimburse the government $150 for their passage. Frankly, I am sure people will gladly pay the money to get picked up. The problem is that if Hurricane Katrina is any indication, these poor Americans in Lebanon will be blown to smithereens long before they are evacuated.

After two days, Israel is still bombing the crap out of Lebanon and the Lebanese people are caught in the middle. Israel seems determined to destroy the Hezbollah leaders at all costs and wants the Lebanese government to cooperate. They have already destroyed the Beirut Airport as well as most of the major highway between Beirut and the Syrian capital of Damascus. When the violence will end is unclear since both the Lebanese and the Israeli governments have no plans to back down. Stay tuned.