Monday, September 1, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Barry Rubin: A Middle East strategy for the West - 'The great battle during our younger years was between communism and democratic liberalism. Its contemporary equivalent is Arab nationalism versus Islamism. That implies some extremely important, often misunderstood conclusions: First, regrettable but true, democracy isn't in the running. The problem is not just that cynical rulers mislead the masses through demagoguery - though that's true - it's that the masses embrace extremist world views...'
