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It’s Like They’re Children Competing For Attention

November 15, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui

This is a real news item from Now Lebanon:

President Nicolas Sarkozy’s meeting with Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Monday will be “very brief and sufficient only to hear [Aoun’s] point of view on current tensions in Lebanon,” Al-Mustaqbal newspaper reported.

Think of this for a moment: A French official found it necessary to tip PM. Hariri’s newspaper that the French president will be holding his nose while meeting with Mr. Aoun.