Demonstrations reported in multiple areas of the south US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack continues to make headlines in Lebanon. Yesterday, it was for lambasting Lebanese journalists as “animalistic” at a press conference in Beirut, and today it was during his planned tour of southern Lebanon. Barrack helicoptered into the area, arriving at the military base in Marjayoun. From there he was meant to go to multiple border villages, but protests had already erupted in a number of them, declaring him unwelcome. Protesters at one of the sites spray-painted “Barrack is an animal” on the pavement...
