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stjdalen 74 points ago +76 / -2

Lebanon was a great place until islamists started taking control

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MuadDon 22 points ago +22 / -0

So was Syria. Then Hildog/Hussein casually destroyed it.

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SirPremierViceroy 4 points ago +4 / -0

And so was Iran! Weird how these things go...

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spez_this 9 points ago +9 / -0

Prior to the Lebanese Civil War (~1975) Beirut was a hub of banking, commerce and tourism - the "Switzerland" of the Middle East. Then the PLO moved in and shit the bed.