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« Cracked Is Back | Main | Monday Music (The Anti-ID Anthem) » December 19, 2005
Signs of Regional Change
Posted by Bill Jackson Diehl reviews the to-date results of the Wolfowitz proposition: Though Iraq has now held the freest election in Arab history, conventional wisdom in Washington and the Middle East still dismisses the Bush administration's hope that its military intervention will catalyze democratic change around the region. A recent survey by Brookings Institution scholar Shibley Telhami found that 58 percent of Arabs outside Iraq said the war had produced less rather than more democracy. In the United States, a Pew poll released last month showed that only 34 percent of Americans believed Middle East democratization would happen. Read the rest. Posted by Bill at December 19, 2005 02:09 PM | TrackBack (0) Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsHuh? Because democracy was going so well in Iraq before our intervention. Posted by: rbj at December 19, 2005 03:31 PM yeah, I found that statement to be rather silly. Posted by: Bill from INDC at December 19, 2005 03:41 PM 58 percent of Arabs outside Iraq said the war had produced less rather than more democracy How can there be less than none in the Middle East prior to the war in Iraq? Posted by: babs at December 20, 2005 12:03 PM Huh? Posted by: apartments warsaw at October 13, 2006 07:51 AM |
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