Does the name Walid Jumblatt ring a bell? It didn't to me until Hubby reminded me he's the Druze leader who said he felt joy when the space shuttle exploded with a Jew on it; wished the rocket that almost took out Wolfowitz had been more accurate, because killing Jews was like wiping out a virus; that it makes him happy to read about U.S. soldiers dying day in and day out, and other pleasantries. Al Kamen reports what he's saying now.
"It's strange for me to say it," he told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, "but this process of change" to democracy "has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it."
