by Rod
13. October 2008 02:17
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In the summer of 2006, Lebanon suffered from a war.
Its primary source of income: tourism, was cut off. The country's infrastructure was heavily damaged.
Hotels, resorts and restaurants had zero income and many businesses went bankrupt during a summer when they should have seen around $2 billion in profits.
A lot of people, including my 2 younger brothers and I, had to escape through Syria.
Two months later I come back and saw with my own eyes what I had seen on TV before. A whole part of Beirut ravaged, all main bridges broken and that's not even mentioning the destruction in the south of Lebanon.
And then I saw this advertisement on a really big building next to one of Lebanon's biggest highways.
A lot of people surely had really bad accidents. By looking back on the incident we can learn from its mistakes, that is the way to move forward and learn how to examine ourselves before pointing fingers in blame.
Lebanon is not only economically in debt, it's unstable politically...I hope it keeps progressing like it has been during these past two months; learning from its mistakes and not repeating them. |
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