I saw the 2nd part of Muhammad Hasanyn Haykal's special interview on AlJazeera today. Well, my readers know that I don't like him, and never did. He was a propagandist for the Nasserist regime and for its defeat in 1967, and later--people forget--became a propagandist for Sadat before the latter discarded him. He also bothers me with his inferiority complex toward things Western: if a source is "Western" or American, it is always superior and credible in his eyes. His evaluation of what happened in Lebanon did not, in its core, differ from that of Husni Mubarak. I never liked him. And I wish he would stop sprinkling his Arabic with English words. It annoys me.