<div> <div> </div> <div>I suppose that many of the Americans in question are not blondes who went to the beach for a suntan, but Lebanese-Americans visiting their families back home for part of the summer. Many of them, no doubt, will have a dim view of their ( U.S.) government as a result of what they are now experiencing, but I suspect that many of them already had a dim view of the U.S. government's policies in Lebanon. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:09:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Dwayne Monroe <<a href="mailto:idoru345@yahoo.com"> idoru345@yahoo.com</a>> Subject: [lbo-talk] U.S. Rescue Bogs Down in Lebanon Perhaps I'm wrong.  Perhaps there'll be no perceptual repercussions. But... Many Americans nurture a subconscious vision of what their government will do to help them escape this sort of emergency. That vision - I suspect - involves carrier battle groups, fleets of helicopters, "military efficiency" (the final dream of an age bureaucratized into a stupendous inefficiency)... The elements of a Jerry Bruckheimer Summer-time blockbuster. Instead, they get busy signals, confusing directions and loan applications. Isn't this the last thing a government can fail at before the threads start to come loose?  You can't protect me, they'll say (though the corporate media will work to mask - there'll be photos of sun tanned blondes gratefully hugging square jawed marines in combat kit..watch your head Miss as you get into the Chinook). -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a> </blockquote></div>