the past three weeks were a prequel

we can now begin to write a history of this war,
we can now link events backwards and forwards,
and write a narrative that pivots on this hour's news:

the americans are landing in beirut

i sob. i vomit. i'm incredulous. i'm cynical. hasn't this already been written somewhere?
didn't we already figure that the us was letting israel do its dirty work, outsourcing the demolition job to the contractor that has the best bulldozers in town. of course we supply our own tools for the job, in case ground operations don't work out.

the us now occupies lebanon.

omg.