2 March 2005
The Arab Street Rises at Last!
The Arab street has finally gotten around to rising. They didn't care when the Taliban was sent back to hell or Saddam chased into his rathole, but when it comes to democracy they do get riled. This looks a whole lot like the days before the Berlin wall fell. So why aren't all those left o' grams flying around with "I told you so." written in big red letters. Oh, that's right, the street was supposed to rise AGAINST the west. I guess being half right is never enough.
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"Oh, that's right, the street was supposed to rise AGAINST the west. I guess being half right is never enough."
MMnnnnn.....There is nothing like an unhealthy dose of blind hubris to confuse and obfuscate. For Mr Firmin even to DREAM that the current events in the Middle East - as truly exhilirating as they are - indicate a swing TOWARDS the West is proof that his ideo-goggles are on crooked once again.
In any case, just let us see. History is full of rushes to judgement; Mr Firmin wishes to pillory many on the "left" who have assumed - very reasonably along with some on the "right" - that the Bush/neo-con "Grand Strategy" so loudly touted by John Lewis Gaddis no more than three years ago in Foreign Policy was doomed as a hopelessly utopian project. Yet it was always obvious that IF if could be pulled off that the rewards might actually have a chance of meriting the risk, if only just.
So, let's see. Save your crowing for now and watch, Mr Firmin.
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