This article was extremely optimistic. His assumption that things will be better with the Arab Spring are as yet to reveal themselves. There is no guarantee that Egypt, for instance, will embrace freedom & democracy, rather that a radical muslim dictatorship. I'd say the latter is far more likely than the former.
GWB & the Arab Spring cheerleaders need to understand that democracy & the rule of law only flourish in well educated, moral societies. These traits are sorely lacking in muslim societies. As with the failed efforts to democratize Iraq & Afghanistan, we are just wasting money trying to civilize these people. They are perfectly happy to live as savages & resent our meddling.
I am sick of subsidizing one brute over another in crap-holes around the world. I would tell these people that I don't care what they do within their own country - they'll get no money from me, but if their evil affects me in any material way or spills over their borders, then I will crush them like a bug.
GWB understood nothing, else he wouldn’t have really screwed up our thinking with “Islam is a religion of peace.”