Transcription: Beirut isn't just a city. It's a symbol of a particular kind of 20th century madness. Minutes after a car bomb brought down the federal government office building in Oklahoma City, the municipal fire chief stood surveying the carnage, numbed by the scale of the devastation, and mumbled to reporters, this is the kind of thing you expect in Beirut, not in America. The calculated and systematic reduction of Grozny to uninhabitable rubble, the grotesque ethnic slaughter in Rwanda, the impotence of Western diplomacy and military intervention in Bosnia, the car bombs, drive-by killings, kidnappings ...
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