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Nation
Title: Nation
Category: History
Details: Words: 2581 | Pages: 11.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Nation
Lebanon, a nation that once proudly called itself the Switzerland of the
Middle East, is today a country in name only. Its government controls
little more than half of the nation's capital, Beirut. Its once-vibrant
economy is a shambles. And its society is fragmented - so fragmented, some
believe, that it may be impossible to re-create a unified state responsive
to the needs of all its varied peoples.
Lebanon lies on the eastern shore of the …showed first 75 words of 2581 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2581 total…dampened, the Shiites became disenchanted.
Why is this once prosperous nation on the verge of total collapse? There
are a number of reasons, but the primary one is that the Lebanese people
belong to at least fifteen differe nt religious sects and their loyalty to
these sects is greater than their loyalty to a united Lebanon. Had the
people's sense of nationhood been stronger, they would not have suffered
the destruction of the past decade.
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