And History`s Fingers Never Relax

President Bush Will Come Here And There Will Be New "friends" Of America To Open A New Relationship With The World, New Economic Fortunes For Those Who "liberated" Them.

The Syrian Army Is Tired Of Corruption. It Is Tired Of Party Nepotism. It Is Becoming Very Angry With Those It Blames For The War.

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. Look, International Capital Has Been Globalized, So Osama Bin Laden Is Globalized. It's Not Surprising To Find Followers Of Bin Laden In All These Countries.

The Bin Laden I Met Each Time Was In A Simple Saudi White Robe, With A Simple, Cheap Kafiya And Very Cheap Plastic Sandals. But A Videotape Released Before September 11, Which I Saw On Lebanese Television, Had Him In A Gold Embroidered Robe. When I Saw This, I Thought, Whoa, Has This Guy Changed? I Wouldn't Have Imagined Him Ever Appearing In Such Golden Robes When I Met Him.

I Was Very Struck By The Fact That Colin Powell Said He Would Produce Evidence And Then Never Produced It. Then Tony Blair Produced A Document Of Seventy Paragraphs, But Only The Last Nine Referred To The World Trade Center, And They Were Not Convincing. So We Have A Little Problem Here: If They're Guilty, Where Is The Evidence? And If We Can't Hear The Evidence, Why Are We Going To War?