Lebanese Prime minister Sanyurah assumed that Bush's pat on his shoulder is sufficient to empower him. Sanyurah is now the prisoner of the prime minister's headquarters in downtown Beirut (he has not been to his home in months now): just like Karzai. Just like Karzai. Why can't people learn from history regarding the plight of puppets: do they not know what happened to Najibullah: a Soviet puppet at the time?