2 years of “liberation,” 9 months of “sovereignty” and 2 months of “democracy” later, Iraq is not doing well.

Most Syrians have for a long time been opposed to the regime’s handling of Lebanon, upset not by the departure from Lebanon but rather upset by the mishandling in the last years.

Many people in the Arab world were engrossed in a frenzy of excitement as the first Superstar program (the local version of Britain’s original Pop Idol, or the US’s American Idol) was coming to an end.