The Looking-Glass Wars
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The Middle East has long been home to a 'murdering class.'
Americans must avoid sliding into this moral morass.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Christopher Dickey
Newsweek
Updated: 3:03 p.m. ET Nov. 2, 2005
Nov. 2, 2005 - He ate raw meat at our late lunch among a wilderness of
mirrors. My guest, an Arab spymaster in Lebanon for most of the 1975-90
civil war, had chosen to meet in Paris at one of those opulent hotels
where fashion shows are held. Haute couture designers like these
places, as do high-living spies, because the gilt-framed mirrors on the
walls let the knowing see everything and everybody from many different
angles. As we talked about car bombs, the hotel staff was setting up
chairs for a d=E9fil=E9. Over steak tartare, we discussed the murder of
former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and 22 other people on the
Beirut waterfront last Valentine's Day.
Christopher Dickey
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