This is how you can tell that American correspondents in the Middle East only talk to one side--the side of Hariri Inc in Lebanon: "General Aoun, who has established a working relationship not only with Hezbollah but also with his former nemesis". Now, I am not a fan of Aoun but he certainly has NOT established ANY relationship with Syria. There is no evidence of that, at all. But Kifner also says: "The man widely viewed as the heir to the Lebanese democratic movement, Saad Hariri, stayed out of the country during the entire war between Hezbollah and Israel."