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A 12 page book review of Larry Pintak's Beirut Outtakes, a comprehensive accounting of the US involvement in Lebanon in the early 1980s. The writer also quotes heavily from Pintak's 2003 update of Beirut Outtakes, Seeds of Hate. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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one person, sometimes another. Alliances are formed and broken, and players jump between levels at will. Sound complicated? This scenario is simple compared to Beirut in the early 1980s. Yet,
despite its complexity, Larry Pintak, a TV correspondent who covered Beirut from 1980 to 1985, manages to successfully unravel the Gordian knot that was Beirut during this era in his
text Beirut Outtakes. Pintaks clear, concise, yet colorful writing style makes this bit of history not only understandable but fascinating. Pintaks writing is immediate and dramatic, which makes his
book read more like a novel than a factual account of the events in Beirut in the early 1980s. The scenario he describes is one of total anarchy and chaos.
In Beirut at this time, splinter group beget splinter group. According to Pintak, any group with a dozen or so thugs could find themselves a sponsor, come up with a
catchy name and begin killing people (1988). The politically and religiously committed devolved into tinier and tinier factions due to obscure reasons. The largest factions, however, were the Shiite Amal
and the Druze Progression Socialist Party (PSP) on the Islamic side and the Christian Lebanese Forces (Phalangists) (Pintak, 1988). These groups, at least, were working for clearly defined political goals.
The Muslims wanted more power and the Christians were doing their best to try to prevent them from achieving this goal. However, Pintak argues that the violence in Beirut went
even beyond these factions. He states that Beirut had been the site for continuous violence since civil war first erupted in 1975, and that, since that point, the
various feuds rampant in the Middle East had been battled on the streets of Beirut. Pintak says that if a government wanted to make a point, but did not desire
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