Walid Jumblat is obsessed these days with impressing the White Man. You have to read this speech of his in which he reproduces vulgar Orientalist cliches about "the East." He even quotes Kipling's "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the two shall meet." And then concludes by quoting Churchill. Correct me if I am wrong, but it is not the rule in Western countries that whoever quotes Churchill becomes instantly a "statesman"?