Beirut

Today I read Robert Fisk's report on the street fights in Beirut. He feels that the situation is ripe for a war like in 1975.
At the same time President Bush told us yesterday that he is sending twenty thousand more soldiers to Baghdad.
This does not look good.
To me these are signs of hard times coming to the Middle East, and maybe a wider area.
The Earth gets hot, and we puny creatures on its surface, feel the heat.