Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Some people are just good at subservience and prostration. Fu'ad Mater is certainly one of them. In the 1960s, he was a propagandist for the Nasserist regime when he wrote for An-Nahar (as its Arab correspondent); in the 1970s, he was a propagandist (and biographer) of Saddam Husayn who rewarded him with the magazine At-Tadamun, which he edited in London); after 1991, he found a new cause in the House of Saud. Here, he suggests a solution to the Lebanese crisis. Make Prince Al-Walid Bin Talal a minister, he says.