My God says I must love you, you make it really hard.
Americans are far from perfect but the Revolutionary War is pretty much the only anti-colonial uprising/civil war ever to produce a democracy whilst the war was on going and then stick with it. George Washington is also pretty much the only revolutionary military leader to give up power after winning such a war twice.
What is happening in Lebanon is terrible, it is one of the greatest tragedies in the entire sorry story of the Middle East. Lebanon is secular democracy which is also an ethnic melting pot and the Islamists just can't stand it.
Anyway, aren't Lebanese people Phoenicians with with Greeks and Latins? I think that makes them "white folks" according to racists Western historiography.
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