We Believed

We Believed

The mood was somber amongst the small group of officers meeting to discuss lessons learned. We huddled in the middle of a massive airplane hangar, cold, hungry, tired and overwhelmed. It was past 7 p.m., and the last families of refugees interviewed…

Lebanon Revisited — Past Idyll, Present Reality

Lebanon Revisited — Past Idyll, Present Reality

This time we arrived in Beirut by air. Darkness was setting in. The plane turned sharply in the lee of the mountains, and I looked down at the lights on the spit of land where Beirut is built, and at the still…