Lebanon Pt. 3

From the BBC today:

With a truce between Israel and Hezbollah raising hopes of peace in Lebanon, much of the focus is moving towards the task at hand: how to rebuild the country and how to pay for it. ... Tunisia's president has called for an emergency summit of Arab leaders, urging collective support for the rebuilding of the war-torn country. And Sweden has taken a lead in the West by organising a donor conference on 31 August, which some 60 countries and aid agencies are expected to attend.

"The world community now has to give its support to Lebanon's recovery and to the Lebanese people who have been severely affected," says Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson.

Maybe Israel and America can help pay for it.

I mean, since they're the ones who blew everything up.

If they don't, and the country descends into chaos yet again, then all that rhetoric about supporting emerging democracies (such as Lebanon) will seem pretty empty.