Bush's New Arab World

the weeklystandard ^ | 12 15 05 | Duncan Currie

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REMEMBER THE "Arab Spring"? That ephemeral blip of, oh, six or seven weeks last February and March when scattered Bush critics second-guessed their opposition to the Iraq war and the president's Mideast-democracy project? Given that most Americans now deem the war a mistake, it's easy to forget that, only 9 months ago, conservatives and liberals alike were hailing George W. Bush as the 400-pound gorilla of a nascent transformation in Arab politics.

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Outstanding piece on the way I think history will remember Bush.

[Wiseghy]

Don't worry, 32% of the country still wants to impeach him.

Defeatocrats amaze me.

[Publius]

He also "met Syrians in the know who admitted that the fear of American power, and the example of American forces flushing Saddam Hussein out of his spider hole, now drive Syrian policy. They hang on George Bush's words in Damascus, I was told: the rulers wondering if Iraq was a crystal ball in which they could glimpse their future."

"It concentrates a man's mind wonderfully when he knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight." -- Samuel Johnson