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| UN peacekeeper | 10/04/25 |
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Date: October 4th, 2025 7:33 PM Author: UN peacekeeper On a recent summer drive to the beach with my 15-year-old son, the road wound past the site of the port explosion — the debris has mostly been cleared, but nothing here has been rebuilt — and then past another scar we have stopped seeing: the site where former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated by a truck bomb in 2005.
My son asked quietly, “Are the people who did it in jail?”
I wasn’t sure which tragedy he was referring to. I let out a short laugh, not because the question was funny, but because it felt so absurd to even ask such a question. Then it hit me: The real absurdity was my reaction. When you stop seeking answers, adaptation becomes a trap. That’s when you realize that nothing ever changes, except how far we’ve lowered our expectations. |