Our columnist Salim Masur (apparently on a column-writing rampage this week—much to our delight) presents a good perspective on the slowly unfolding pleasantness in the Arab world that lies between the Nile and the Euphrates.
He could have called it “what goes around, comes around.” He called it An emerging reality in Arab-Muslim world, and here’s a snippet:
[…] There is the unmistakable sense of a wind of change blowing through the region where, as Ajami writes, venturing “into the Arab world, as I did recently over four weeks in Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq, is to travel into Bush Country.”
But Democrats in the United States of the Howard Dean and John Kerry type—with their left-wing coalition of the Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky variety, joined by their kissing-cousins in Canada and Europe—cannot see beyond the smoke of a bloody-minded insurgency bent on preserving the charred remains of tyranny in Iraq and neighbouring countries.
The reason for such close-mindedness is rather simple. It is an effect of lacking in historical perspective. […]
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