d. Oh what show of strength that was.
This is the essence of my disgust: our leaders can’t tell the difference between mediocrity and strength.
Still, even a mediocre inquisitor has sufficient power to detain and torture. This is the essence of my fear. And my terror. My would-be torturer will be a mediocre figure, working for a mediocre President, in a mediocre country, going through mediocre crises, that could have been averted through the application of a mediocre amount of wisdom (they had none), still the torture will be no less painful.
The sign posted next to my apartment block says: “We are all with you…”
to the bitter end, of course. For what other end could the likes of him offer for the likes of us?
And this suggests that the easy optimism of last week already seems misplaced:
Lebanon came almost full circle yesterday when Omar Karami, the pro-Syrian prime minister forced from office last week by massive opposition protests, was virtually assured reinstatement after a majority in parliament backed him to form the next government.
An unofficial count gave Mr Karami more than half the votes in the 128-member legislature, and a formal announcement by President Emile Lahoud was expected by today.
The turnaround came a day after several hundred thousand people took to the streets of Beirut following a call by Hezbollah to show support for Syria in the face of demands from the international community that Damascus pull its troops out of Lebanon.
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