[John Lenin]

You don't go straight from dictatorship to freedom overnight. It's going to be a tough 20-30 years for the Middle East.

The oil age is about to end and these people are for the most part 200 years behind. The leaders pocket all the wealth and pass out fish to the people. If you think it's radical over there now, wait until the oil money drys up.

[gaspar]

The writer is a fool, and the premise of his argument -- that we granted Hamas and Hizbollah "Moral legitimacy" -- makes a mockery of the term "moral". The organizations may have been granted political legitimacy within their own political boundaries but the United States never once granted them anything like "moral legitimacy". The U.S. State Department continues to label them terrorist organizations.