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stonebender ([personal profile] stonebender) wrote2006-07-26 10:57 am

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Anthony Bourdain was recently stuck in Beirut while filming a travel show. Here's a quote of his that has me thinking

For the whole time I was there I was often in the bizarre and somehow shameful position of watching a country dismantled before my eyes from a relatively comfortable distance.

[identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com 2006-07-26 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The Usual Suspects, huh? :-)

[identity profile] wild-irises.livejournal.com 2006-07-26 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Thinking indeed.

Bourdain is pretty unpolitical, so that makes it particularly interesting to me.

[identity profile] stonebender.livejournal.com 2006-07-26 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
*sigh* Yep.

[identity profile] stonebender.livejournal.com 2006-07-26 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah that's what struck me. It also speaks a bit to how I'm feeling about things there.