Thursday, July 27, 2006
To my friends (and enemies) in Lebanon: Is Shibli Mallat losing his mind? I am serious. I heard him on LBC-TV the other day, and he said: "As a political leader, I say...." I am not kidding. This reminds me of this Arab journalist, who once read his paper at a conference and it contained the following sentence: "As a keen observer of Middle East politics, I think...."