Philip Geyelin of the Washington Post has correctly observed that "even with all the outsiders gone. what will remain behind [in Lebanon] is a congenitally unstable society." It is a society whose government is structured along sectarian lines. based on a French census taken in 1932. It is a society which. lacking a functional military or security apparatus. has spawned a deadly array of armed militias and sectarian. blood feuds. It Is a society that has ignored some 400.000 Palestinian refugees in its midst. It is a society with little tradition of stability that must be stabilized. Part of the answer lies in addressing the humanitarian needs of the people in Lebanon who have suffered a bitter civil war and two invasions in less than a decade.
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