[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The contemporary Arab world is like the old communist domain of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, with its political and intellectual tyranny. We should accept that, and then adopt the same unyielding resolve to oppose governments that lie, oppress, and murder—until they totter and fall from their very own corrupt weight. There was a silent majority yearning to be free behind the Iron Curtain, and so we must believe that there is also one now, just as captive, in an unfree Middle East.

I've been saying since last fall that George W. Bush will do for the Middle East and Arab world what Ronald Reagan did for Eastern Europe..........tear down the tyranny and bring freedom to the region.

Although the Soviet Union was an organized and massive oppressor, communism did not breed the fanatical hatred now widespread in the Islamist world.

The task will be huge, but the enemy states will fall like dominoes, one by one. Afghanistan was first. Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia will follow in succession, hopefully, faster than we think!!

[aculeus]

"There is hope" ping.