Lysandra Ohrstrom: The Clashes in Beirut: Is the Bush Administration Stirring the Pot?
May 8, 2008 - The last time Hezbollah shut down the city of Beirut in January 2007 it was not an act of war. I was living there reporting for the English-Language daily newspaper the Daily Star.
Last night when I went to sleep in Brooklyn, after reading (the meager English-language) reports of "clashes" in the capital, I assumed this violence was not much different than last year's. There were images of men…