HyperNormalisation Page #6

had a new vision of the world.

It wasn't the harsh realism of

Henry Kissinger any longer,

it was different -

it was a simple, moral crusade,

where America had a special destiny to fight evil

and to make the world a better place.

The places and the periods in

which man has known freedom

are few and far between -

just scattered moments on the span of time.

And most of those moments have been ours.

The American people have a genius

for great and unselfish deeds.

Into the hands of America,

God has placed the destiny

of an afflicted mankind.

God bless America.

But this crusade was going to lead Reagan

to come face-to-face with

Henry Kissinger's legacy...

...and, above all, the vengeful

fury of President Assad of Syria.

EXPLOSION:

Israel was now determined

to finally destroy the power of the Palestinians.

And, in 1982, they sent a massive army

to encircle the Palestinian camps in the Lebanon.

Do you know... Do you know

how strong the Israelis are?

Do you know how many tanks

they have outside Beirut?

Do you know how strong they are?

HE TRANSLATES:

That means "We are not ready to surrender".

Young, young, young!

NEARBY EXPLOSIONS

Keep going!

Dashed into this building here

because the PLO guys with us

expect that, sooner or later,

there will be a huge explosion.

There've been several of these

in the last few minutes.

As you can see,

there's enormous damage in all

the buildings round here.

EXPLOSION:

Quick, quick!

DISTANT EXPLOSIONS

Two months later, thousands

of Palestinian refugees

were massacred in the camps.

It horrified the world.

But what was even more shocking

was that Israel had allowed it to happen.

Its troops had stood by and watched

as a Christian Lebanese faction

murdered the Palestinians.

This was the first of the massacres

we discovered yesterday.

Now, 24 hours later, the stench here is appalling.

But the effects on the Israelis

of what their Christian allies did here

and in dozens of other places around this camp

are going to be immense.

There's always been a risk of such

massacres if Christian militiamen

were allowed to come into Palestinian camps,

and the Israelis seem to have done nothing

to prevent them coming into this one.

In the face of the horror and the growing chaos,

President Reagan was forced to act.

He announced that American

marines would come to Beirut

to lead a peacekeeping force.

Reagan insisted that the troops were neutral.

But President Assad was convinced

that there was another reality.

He saw the troops as part

of the growing conspiracy

between America and Israel to divide

the Middle East into factions

and destroy the power of the Arabs.

Assad decided to get the Americans

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