""The more important question is why so many
Westerners were ready to fall for Seif. He was intelligent, often
surprising, wore well-cut suits and chewed his food with his mouth shut," says
Bret Stephens in The Wall Street
Journal. The New Yorker's Andrew
Solomon writes, "Westerners often mistook his elegant words and his
well-cut suits for an adherence to democratic values."" (thanks Mouin)