Weeks Of Bombing Leave Nation In Ruins

[Purveyor]

TYRE, Lebanon -- Three-and-a-half weeks of war have undone Lebanon's renaissance.

The human toll has been catastrophic enough, with more than 900 Lebanese killed and 913,000 displaced, at the government's last count.

But Israel's bombing campaign has also reduced much of the nation's infrastructure to a shambles, setting back painstaking and costly reconstruction that had finally put Lebanon on a prosperous path after decades of civil war and economic stagnation. Bridges, seaports, fuel depots, and the nation's airports and ports, border crossings, and all the major national highways have been attacked, causing more than $2 billion in damage.

In the latest blow, Israeli warplanes yesterday destroyed four key bridges on the country's last major land route to Syria, raising a new obstacle to aid efforts and adding to the rebuilding burden.

``If there is a definitive solution to the crisis, it will take two to three years to get back to where we were on July 12," the day the war began, said Marwan Mikhael, an adviser to Lebanon's minister of economy and trade.

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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/08/05/weeks_of_bombing_leave_nation_in_ruins/

[LynnTheDem]

1. That's ok...they're just untermenschen.

Like the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Useful tools for propaganda but otherwise, fuck 'em.

And as I am not a MFing rightwingnut, (thank the Good Lord!) yes the above is :sarcasm:

[AusGail]

2. You forgot to mention

the devastating pollution caused by the Israelis when they bombed Lebanon's fuel storage and allowed it to flow into the Mediterranean. Israel wont let anybody past their warships to go in to attempt to clean up the mess.

How one country can get away with so many war crimes is beyond me.