Once beautiful Lebanon got infected with the PLO/Hezbollah/Syria virus and went from what some called the Switzerland of the Middle East into a carbon copy of the PLO/Hezbollah/Syria, as illustrated below:
Lebanon was a beautiful playground, but that was a long time ago. Used to live in Montreal and the owner of a restaurant I frequented kept postcards of Beirut in its heyday - gorgeous. All they have now is memories, and with this thinking, they won't even have those in a generation.