Oh, SAEED Can You See? Yeah. So What.

Saeed Akl died. Isn't that a tragedy?

And at the young age of 102.

WHO?

This is among the 3 most important items in WORLD NEWS today:

Saeed Akl was a leading Lebanese poet. Can you name another one? Ever read anything by this guy?

Are you an Arab? Am I?

No, but now that the Arabs are stinking up the planet, always threatening to blow up people anywhere in the world, we ALL have to be concerned about anyone from the Middle East.

Nevermind that a Mexican poet, an African poet, a Chinese poet, and come to think of it, ANY poet would not get the front page of a news digest.

Few poets would even get a mention on an obit page.

The irony here is that Akl was not a Muslim. He was a Catholic. Like Kipling or Poe, his poems were sometimes turned into pop songs. The pop songer Fayrouz had some hits with Akl poems turned into songs. Alk was actually anti-Palestinian, and was even on Israel's side when Menachem Begin authorized an invasion of Lebanon.

But to the Media, all they needed to know was an ARAB died, someone famous in an ARAB land. That makes him world news now.

You think the heathen Allen Ginsberg got a mention from Al Jazeera? Think the Arab world was rocked by the deaths of Maya Angelou? Robert Graves? Spike Milligan?? Sapristi!