Do you think that you are possibly inferring a large decision from a rather small sampling?
The great minds quoted in the article think of spreading democracy as a disease?
Promoting democracy is to ignore Arab aspirations?
Palestine, with its at best muddled position is the most important thing in the Arab world?
That is convenient agreement with Europeans and other cynics who condescendingly think the Arabs are not capable of democracy, imho.
I guess the piece actually written by an Arab taht Tom posted about the positive impact in Iraq of American policy proving Arab prejudice wrong is not 'Arab enough'?
Ed