Friday, November 14, 2003

TEACHING ARABS DEMOCRACY LIKE TEACHING A DONKEY TO TALK

Or so says this Arab writer.

It is a very good piece...go read the whole thing here.
President Bush's current commendable democracy initiative in the Middle East is no less ambitious than teaching donkeys how to talk.

The Arab world is cursed with 17 dictatorships. They have been there for so long that extracting them is no easy matter.

None of them will fade away without a fight.

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