[Clive]

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[SolidWood]

Ajami excellent as always. I recommend his recent book “The Foreigners Gift”.

BTW “Ajam” is the Arab insult for Persians...

[SuziQ]

This assertion that liberty can stick on Arab soil is a gift that Bush brought to the Arabs.

It will take a while for this idea of freedom to take hold, because they've never really had it, and never saw it in action. It's a unique time in history, because they can now see how this idea of a Democracy or a Representative Republic works, because of the immediacy of the media.