Marines Aiding Evacuation in Beirut; New Clash in South

Marines Aiding Evacuation in Beirut; New Clash in South - New York Times

“The country has been torn to shreds,” a desperate Lebanese prime minister, Fouad Siniora, said Wednesday at a meeting he had called of foreign diplomats, including the American ambassador.“

Is this the price we pay for aspiring to build our democratic
institutions?” he asked in a bitter and emotional speech.
“Can the international community stand by while such callous
retribution by the state of Israel is inflicted on us?”