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    Editorial: Lebanon's exciting and dangerous demands for change

    by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times Nov 04, 2019 3 minutes

    Lebanon, roiled by political protests, is also drowning in garbage. The two phenomena are linked.

    In the four years since a key landfill closed, governmental ineptitude and political and sectarian rivalry have prevented any workable solution to the ensuing sanitation crisis: neighborhoods, rivers, hills and seashores lined with trash. Demonstrators took to the streets to express their anger in 2015, and have never completely let up.

    But governmental dysfunction and corruption

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