It is amazing how forgiving US government can be toward dictators and warlords. Just a year ago, Walid Jumblat used a racial/racist slur to describe Condoleezza Rice. Next week, he will be accorded a hero's welcome in DC. Let them ask him about the bells of Christian churches that he has kept in his palace in Mukhtarah. Oh, and ask him about his "progressiveness" and "socialism."