Wednesday, December 20, 2006

""He's a destructive figure in recent Lebanese history," said Michael Young, opinion editor for Lebanon's Daily Star newspaper. "Lebanon has never been so divided, and the Christian community, since his return, has never been so divided. Like many a demagogue, he lives off division."" (Now I like the writings of Megan Stack. But should she not have identified Husayn Young as "an English language propagandist for the right-wing, sectarian Christian forces in Lebanon"?) And do you know that Young sounds more "civilized" once he dropped the Arabic part of his name which he used into the mid-1990s?