my life in beirut

my life as an ajnabi (foreigner) i doubt is much different from most beirutis these days. the streets are empty, everyone is inside smoking and watching the news 24/7. my friends joke that even the religious drink during times like these. fucking shooting. right now theyre shooting like crazy celebrating the govt's decision to revoke previous decisions about 1. hizballah's communication network that they tried (and failed miserably) to  say was illegal. 2. the head of airport security who they removed accusing him of being aligned with hizballah. man, march 14 really got their asses handed to them. now, it's fucked though. friends who lived the civil war tell me, it will soon become like back then when the ideologies were lost and it becomes about revenge. posters and flags still can be seen all over my neighborhood which is nearly all sunni and supporters of the pro-US future movement. people are scared to take them down. but you know the neighborhood sees it everyday and just gets pissed off. and now the opposition is shooting like crazy, why? they won. they got their way, and the 2 big issues have been resolved. so why the celbratory shooting. everyone i talked to when it started was pissed off from it. one hour it lasted, just shooting. i can only imagine what the pro-government (anti-opposition) folks are feeling.