There was a[n] (unintentionally) funny interview with Bush on Hariri TV, Al-Mustaqbal. The interviewer (a serious reporter) asked him whether he is following the dialogue sessions in Beirut. Of course, he said yes. That will now be believed in Lebanon. Really. Those Lebanonese practitioners of political naivete will now really believe that Bush is following the silly dialogue charade. They now will think that he even knows their names. You have to see Jumblat during his trip. He acted like everybody knows who he is, not knowing that officials he met got a 4 minutes briefing about who he is just before he was to meet with this person or that. But those who excel in exaggerating the significance of the most insignificant of "homelands"--if that what Lebanon can be called--can also easily exaggerate their own significance. I really don't think that Bush knows who Hariri is. You have to read the account of former Treasury Secretary of the US in the 1st Bush administration. Did you read about his meeting once with a leader from Cyprus? But then again, a Rahbani Brothers had that song: "a few Cedars that are overwhelming the universe [no less]--hal-kam Arzi-l-`ajqin-l-kawn". One of the best things about the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon is that Lebanese disunity and deep sectarian divisions are blown out (or up). Diguises are lifted; let the Lebanese people see their leaders and clerics for what they are. Let the slogans be trampled on by the feet of Hummus revoutionaries. And the country show its true colors to the world, but not to itself or to Hassan Fattah. Enough pretensions and fabrications. And LBC-TV is still busy clebrating Elia Kazan as a "great and proud...Lebanese."