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You know when I posted this appeal for aid, I wondered what kind of reaction it would get. The optimistic side of me hoped that the Subsim community might contain enough basic humanism within it to recognize that these 800,000 people who are displaced did not ask for this to happen to them, and in fact have seen more than their fair shair of war, destruction, killing, and terrorism. That these people are just people, many of them Christian, pro-American, and pro-democracy. And I'd hoped that, as this is an international community, others might at least contribute links to organizations in their own region accepting donations for this relief effort - if nothing else.

But the cynical side of me also realized, given the nature of the many other threads on this topic, that this thread would just as likely be hijacked by those who not only could care less about the plight of Lebanese refugees, but would go even further by interjecting their political bias into it in an effort to discourage others from contributing.

What you do with your money is your business, and you're entitled to your views on the conflict and their are many other threads for you to air them; but I'd ask that if you're not interested in helping these people that you at least, please, show enough deceny to keep your trolling out of this thread.