Israel Lost Its War. Will Assad's Enemies

Saudi Arabia Is The Most Fragile Of All Arab States, Though We're Not Saying So. And, Unfortunately, Bin Laden Puts His Finger On The Other Longstanding Injustices In The Arab World: The Continued Occupation Of Palestinian Land By The Israelis; The Enormous, Constant Arab Anger With The Tens Of Thousands Of Iraqi Children Who Are Dying Under Sanctions; The Feelings Of Humiliation Of Millions Of Arabs Living Under Petty Dictators, Almost All Of Whom Are Propped Up By The West.

When I Saw The Pictures Of New York Without The World Trade Center, New York Looked Like A Shadow Of Itself.

At Baalbek Nuts I Bought Pistachios From The Lebanese Owners, Who Answered My Request For Their Thoughts On The War With The Typically Lebanese Response Of No Problem. It's A Lie, As We All Knew.

How Could Believers, People Who Regard Themselves As True Muslims, Get On Those Planes, Quoting The Words Of God Delivered Through The Prophet To Themselves, Knowing They Were Going To Kill Innocent People? They Saw The Other Passengers On The Plane. They Could See The Woman With Her Little Daughter. They Saw People Making Phone Calls To Their Wives Or Their Husbands. They Knew Who They Were Killing.

We Live In A Society In The West, Where, When Men Do Violent Things, They Do Them Under Orders. They Are Soldiers Carrying Out Orders Or Mafia Men Carrying Out Killings For Bosses. But The Way Things Happen In The Middle East Is Not The Same As In The West.