Commentary > Daniel Schorr from the March 04, 2005 edition The Iraq effect? Bush may have had it right By Daniel Schorr WASHINGTON – Something remarkable is happening in the Middle East - a grass-roots movement against autocracy without any significant "Great Satan" anti-American component. In Beirut, the crowds that massed in the streets and forced the resignation of the Syrian-controlled government were demonstrating for kifaya (change) and freedom from the Syrian military that has occupied their country for more than a quarter of a century. The passionate protest had apparently been triggered by the assassination of the popular former...