In the wake of exploding pagers, universalism plunges into the abyss. The aftermath of a September 27 Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut. [Getty Images] I left Beirut in 2006, a month after graduating from medical school. In July that year, war had erupted, or rather been renewed, between Hezbollah and Israel following a cross-border raid by Hezbollah that left three Israeli soldiers dead. Without a foreign passport that could guarantee me safe passage out of Lebanon, which was under an...