[AFPhys]

I have to say I believe you are really off base on this one. As I said, ignoring the predictable junk in the article --- simply reading past those passages --- pretty much the whole article is what I consider a positive statement - though the libs could well paint those same items as negative --- and I welcome that difference in interpretation. His last two paragraphs require similar interpretation - adjust what he says there by taking into account it reflects his antiAmerican anticapitalist bias, and the prognosis becomes positively rosy... much to his chagrin.

[nopardons]

But Pipes, who IS an expert on " THE ARAB STREET ", has been saying the same sort of good things, for more than a year ! I am NOT " off base ", at all. The writer, of that article, is NOT an ARAB, and is just grousing.