The Failed Pacifist

Tony Bourdain in Lebanon

My favorite culinary writer, Anthony Bourdain, was in Beirut filming an episode of his television program when the Israel/Hezbollah war began. He writes in Salon of what he saw while waiting to escape the country.

We wake up to molar-vibrating percussions and go to sleep to distant thunder. Afternoons, we watch as Beirut is dismantled. Bit by bit. First the sound of unseen jets flying overhead. Then silence. Then a "Boom!" Then a distant plume of smoke. Black, brown, white ... the whole city south of us slowly growing more indistinct in the midday light under a constant, smoglike haze.

via BoingBoing

posted by Doran @ 12:55 AM