Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Did you see mini-Hariri on Aljazeera TV? I did. It was awkward how Ahmad Mansur spoke to him in classical Arabic and he answers with his weird dialect (a combination of Saudi dialect distorted by recent private tutoring in Beiruti dialect to prepare him for the elections last year when Beiruti families complained that they could not decipher his Saudi dialect). He did not say anything new or interesting. But mini-Hariri is more confident now. I bet they he is now allowed to sit in his father's chair. He more than once referred to Lebanon as "great Lebanon." Great? For what? I mean what is great about Lebanon aside from showing the world one of the most savage civil wars in the 20th century?