Photo: Hezbollah militants display arms and an image of Hassan Nasrallah. (Credit: AFP Photo/Mahmoud Zayat/Newscom)From The New Republic:
'Yes, sometimes I go into the room with my advisers and I start shouting. And then they say, 'And then what?'" The question hangs in the perfectly cooled air in Sa'ad Hariri's marble-floored sitting room, where Beirut appears as a sunlit abstraction visible at a distance through thick windows. Hariri's father, the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, martyr of the Cedar Revolution, arches his black eyebrows from a giant poster near the sofa, looking out at his son with a sidelong, mischievous glance. "It hasn't been a joyful trip," Sa'ad Hariri is saying. "In the past four years, I have lost friends. Pierre Gemayel was my friend. My father was murdered. It's been an agonizing four years."
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