CNN was good for one amusing item tonight.
In small print, in a roundup of news items, they mentioned in passing that the Pentagon was exploring plans for a possible "evacuation of up to 25,000 American citizens from Lebanon."
I could only smile.
I remember the last time there was an "evacuation mission" of American citizens.
And there were fewer than a thousand of them "at risk" at that time.
I can dream, can't I?