Shame.

Just like when a tsunami hits a Southeast Asian country and indiscriminately wipes out thousands, and the only numbers of discrete value in the press are the "1 American and 2 (fill in blank with any Western country)" that also die in the disaster, it seems that Lebanese craziness that doesn't happen in Beirut doesn't really seem to matter to the Lebanese.

There's an isolated mini-civil war going on in Tripoli, in the north. Nearly a dozen people were killed over the last week, and an explosion there today killed 2 people and injured 20.

But as long as the Grey Goose Vodka keeps pouring and "White" and "Sky Bar" keep the glamorous Beiruti skyline lit, no one seems to give a damn.