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Michel Aoun's yawning emptiness was on display a few weeks before the parliamentary elections, when he was asked why he would not debate his Kesrouan rival Carlos Edde. "Who would translate," was Aoun's reply, as he sneered at Edde's Arabic. Yet Edde got the better of that round. He was among the first candidates to tar Aoun with an Iranian brush.

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