AL KAMEN SCORES AGAIN

This time he finds a superb quote about the hack Karen Hughes:


Hughes, wrote Rami G. Khouri, a widely respected columnist in Lebanon's Daily Star, "should apologize for subjecting her own country, and we who were the objects of her mission, to what can only be described as a monumental and insulting hoax."

Khouri said Hughes "never understood that her brand of moralizing and arrogant cultural cheerleading -- 'Go, Muslims, go! . . . You can be modern and democratic if you really try!' -- was part of the problem, not part of the solution." Hughes "failed miserably and totally," he said, but "she never really had a chance," given U.S. policies, and she ended up "playing the fool on the global stage that increasingly came to see her as a strange combination of a comedy and horror show rolled into one."