Praise the Heavens, Lebanon has found a new
protector.
In
the darkest hours of our nation, few would have
thought that we would find a helping hand in the
least likely of all places. Some would say that the
hand of God always reveals itself in mysterious
ways. A light to shine in the darkness for all those
who choose to see.
I
chose to see it last night - Thank you Ussama Bin
Laden for defending Lebanon.
When the Towers in Manhattan crumbled under the
force of hatred and the delusions of a handful of
misguided suicidal men seeking some prophetically
glorious end, few people at all were aware that this
was a valiant attempt at vindicating the suffering
of an obscure nation. A nation whose population for
the most part -with internationally verifiable
polls-was largely aghast at the attacks of September
11. Even the Lebanese didn’t know that good old
Ussama was reaching out 22 years later to take
vengeance for the destruction of Beirut’s bullet
riddled buildings. I’m sure they would have danced
in the streets with glee to know that a Saudi
murderer was so burdened with the suffering of a
country, occupied largely by a Christian
“blasphemous crusader” population , that he chose to
go about killing some 3000 people to get things off
his chest.
How distinctly Arabesque of him. Kill innocent
people then blame it on defending the suffering of
Palestinians or Lebanese.
Still my heart goes out to him, myself as a
Lebanese who has seen his home destroyed several
times over. I feel his pain. It was not his fault
that he inherited 300 Million dollars. It was not
his fault that in his youth he gallivanted in
decadent Beirut in a Ferrari before figuring out
that he preferred Johnny Jihad to Johnny walker. It
is not his fault that he was busy using American
weapons and helped fight the Russians in Afghanistan
while Lebanon and the Lebanese were being raped by
Palestinian guerrillas and the Syrian army.
Everything is different now. Naturally because he
says so. Poor soul, devastated by the invasion of
Israel in Lebanon. Now I perceive everything. Prior
to this I couldn’t reconcile why 3000 people burned
to death, today I smile replete with understanding.
Ahh, thank you Ussama. You make me proud to be a
Lebanese.
We
really needed another bad association. It wasn’t
enough being pillaged, invaded and used to promote
most of the vicious acts of terrorism over the past
29 years. No, to top it all off we are now the cause
celebre of Ussama Bin Laden. It wasn’t enough to
have Hezbollah, Syria and Iran make us the villains
of the universe and implicate us as kidnappers and
terrorists. Nope, not enough. We needed Ussama to
get a conscience instead.
All the Commissions, panels, analysts, thinkers and
even the common Joe can stop wondering why September
11 happened now. Ussama said it was because of
Lebanon.
Thanks again, but no thanks!
I
think back to my father in times like these and the
way he felt about life and sure enough his old
favorite saying comes to mind: “When you live among
roses, you tend to smell like roses, but when you
live among camels, you tend to smell like dirt.”
