The Cedar Wood For The Trees

That huge quantity of ammonium nitrate had been in Beirut for seven years because it was intended for the Saudi-backed side in Syria. 

The present regime in Lebanon is bad. But the alternative would be worse. We have been here before.

And the idea that the place needs to be saved by Macron, of all people, is a sick joke. The cities of France had been in uproar for a year and a half until Covid-19 came along.