Another excellent article brought by Vaska via Off Guardian
by Souad Sharabani
Counterpunch, November 25, 2015
Lebanon’s stability is hanging on by a thread. There is war raging on its border; Syria, the economy has all but collapsed, the central government is extremely weak, and there are over 2 million Syrian and Iraqi refugees. So when ISIS attacked the Bourj al-Barajneh district in southern Beirut recently, it is just one more problem that the Lebanese have to deal with.
I spoke with Andre Vltchek about the present and the future of Lebanon. Andre Vltchek is a writer and a journalist who has written extensively about the Middle East, and who was actually present in Lebanon during the recent ISIS attack. – Souad Sharabani
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Souad Sharabani: until recently, relatively to the rest of the Middle East, Lebanon has been calm Do you agree with that?
Andre Vltchek: No, Lebanon was tremendously affected by the wars in Iraq and…
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