Disgusting Fuad Siniora, And His Multitudinous Ilk

New English Review ^ | 2 July 2008 | Hugh Fitzgerald Posted on 07/02/2008 4:40:45 PM PDT by forkinsocket There are those who try, as they attempt to make sense of the Middle East, especially that presented by the kaleidoscopic confusions of Lebanon, to mold in opposition to the obvious villains, out of the clayey others who oppose them, figures who may then appear, in the fervid Western imagination (just as fervid, when that Western imagination is attempting to deal with those who first gave rise to the phrase "fervid Oriental imagination"), as heroes. For example, in Iraq it was always assumed that those Shi'a Arabs who had bravely opposed Saddam Hussein, or been related to those who had bravely opposed him, and even been tortured or killed by him, must of course be wonderful fellows themselves. But all kinds of Shi'a had... [read full story]