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Perilous crisis presents rare opportunity for Lebanon
By The Daily Star

Friday, July 14, 2006

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Some people like to wax proverbial about the fact that many Chinese use the same word to describe both crisis and opportunity. Few get the chance to test the implications of that fact, but Lebanon has an opportunity to try. Israel's steadily mounting military response to Hizbullah's capture of two soldiers inside the Jewish state has already imposed human and financial costs that a tiny country like Lebanon can ill afford.

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