Monday, January 29, 2007

So the propaganda arm of the White House which sent a team to Davos, arranged for an interview on LBC-TV with Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, in order to show the Lebanese that the American private sector is also fully in support of the Sanyurah government. So Barrett appeared on the LBC-TV show, Al-Hadath, and it was clear that he has done tons of interviews that day, and had no clue what the host, the able Shadha `Amr, was asking. She, like most Lebanese, exaggerates the significance of one of the most insignificant of countries, and assumes that people are keenly interested in Lebanese affairs, and really care about the identity of Hariri's killers. She started asking him specific questions about specifics of Lebanese politics, and wanted to know his opinion of Wi'am Wahhab. But it became clear during the interview that Barrett did not know a thing about the country; it became more clear when he called on Tutsis and Hutus in Lebanon to work together to unite the country.