Condoleeza Rice and Emile Lahoud

"After shaking hands with President Émile Lahoud of Lebanon, she writes, she felt as if she needed a shower. "  Let me guess: she did not feel the need the take a shower after shaking hands with the most brutal dictators in the region from, say, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, and the rest of the pro-US bunch.