In his classic The Arab Cold War, Malcolm Kerr famously commented how Arab politics was "fun" in the 1950s and 1960s. It was no more fun, he lamented. I just read in my CD archive issue of the Lebanese right-wing An-Nanahr daily in January 1966, that the Syrian government organized fund-raising campaigns around the country to help fund the overthrow of the Jordanian government. You know what I mean?