Walid Jumblat (in his interview on LBC-TV's Kalam An-Nas) also slipped in two things: he told in a moment of cander how Sen. Joe Biden (when he had visited him in Mukhtarah) asked him to stop criticizing the US. Jumblat (who was meek under Syria and under the Israeli invasion of 1982 when he meekly hosted Shimon Peres) meekly agreed. Secondly, Jumblat's analysis of the Middle East is filled with Orientalist cliches: he keeps talking about "the Western Mind" and how the "Western Mind" would not accept the injustice in Palestine anymore. The Western Mind, o Jumblat, gave us Israel, clonization, Hiroshima, and the current "wars of liberation". But the Lebanonese Mind gave you Tabbulah. Bon Appetit.