And then there comes Michael Young. I was expecting it. The US press was able to find a half-Arab who has a Western name, and whose link to the Arabic language is akin to that of American students of Arabic on college campuses in the US. And Young is a neo-conservative pro-Zionist writer, who is a huge fan of Bush's wars. So that gives him great qualifications as far as the US media are concerned. It is a matter of time before he becomes a bureau chief of one of the American newspapers or TV stations. He has the credentials: the biases against Arabs and all. Notice that this ostensible Lebanese is giving advise not to Lebanon and what is in the best interest of Lebanon, but to the enemies of Lebanon: he is basically giving advise to Israel on how best to take advantage of its aggression on Lebanon. Look how this man is writing when "his country" is under attack by Israel from land, air, and sea and with the full support of the US: "If America and its Security Council partners [he wants to say Israel here] are smart, however, they may be able to use this crisis to further their security goals in the Middle East." And notice that faults Hizbullah for taking the fight outside of the Shib`a farms but would not dare say that Israel has repeatedly taken its fight against Lebanon well outside the Shib`a Farms. He would not dare say that. Young is a mimic of the New York Times dogmas and language on the Middle East, and is a better mimic of colonial writings on Arabs and Muslims. I always read him, after Sep. 11, as somebody applying for jobs in US newspapers. So if I read him correctly, he fully supports Israeli aggression on Lebanon, but recommends that Israel extends its aggression to Syria to make it more perfect. Young writes for Western readers only, and Arabic readers don't know him, and don't know what he is saying to the White Man. It is thus hilarious for Young to write about "the public mood" in Lebanon. He certainly knows of the public mood in Ashrafiyyah, but do you think that he ever stepped foot in a refugee camp, or in the South or in the Southern Suburbs? Also, Young wants to disarm Hizbullah. Oh, ya. Have Hassan Fattah and Michael Young disarm Hizbullah. That would work.