Playboy Interview: Walid Jumblatt

July, 1984

a candid conversation--about beirut and civil strife, "dallas" and reincarnation--with the lebanese war lord who held off the marinesLebanon. The name is synonymous with shellings and massacres and shootings and car bombings. In a word, chaos. Lebanon is where more U.S. Marines have died than in any other engagement since the Vietnam war. It is where Reagan's foreign policy, which ended with the euphemistic "redeployment" and subsequent pull-out of U.S. forces, suffered a def...

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