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WASHINGTON -- In early 2005, the advance of freedom in the Middle East had an air of inevitability. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Beirut to demand an end to Syrian occupation. Eight and a half million Iraqis voted with purpled fingers. Even Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak permitted a multiparty election. People talked of an "Arab Spring."
By 2006, what had seemed inevitable was dismissed as incredible. Iraq had descended into civil strife, apparently aided by elections that reinforced sectarian divides. Voting in the Palestinian territories brought Hamas to power. Mubarak, the old angler, reeled back most of the freedoms...
The Revenge of the Freedom Agenda
Given guns and money to countries whose powers that be turned on us and used them to kill our soldiers or to play the devil's game against us?
What does Edmund Burke really mean by this statement?
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." ?
People seem to be very confused about who to help and who not to help. Who to work with and who not to work with. Isn't Israel our ally? Are we to believe that Islam is our best new friend because Obama seems to want them to be?
And are we to play the devil's advocate because we don't like the ones someone has labeled the "neocons" like Bolton? Seems that labeling can...