The turmoil that has been sweeping the Middle East is susceptible to at least two broad and daring explanations. On the one hand, Charles Krauthammer, of The Washington Post, argues that revolts against autocratic governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya are testimony to the “fundamental tenet of the Bush Doctrine that Arabs are no exception to the universal thirst for dignity and freedom.” Facebook and Twitter “may have mediated this pan-Arab (and Iranian) reach for dignity and freedom,” he wrote the other day, but the US invasion to bring down Saddam Hussein “set the premise.”
A Hierarchy of Problems
A Hierarchy of Problems
A Hierarchy of Problems
The turmoil that has been sweeping the Middle East is susceptible to at least two broad and daring explanations. On the one hand, Charles Krauthammer, of The Washington Post, argues that revolts against autocratic governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya are testimony to the “fundamental tenet of the Bush Doctrine that Arabs are no exception to the universal thirst for dignity and freedom.” Facebook and Twitter “may have mediated this pan-Arab (and Iranian) reach for dignity and freedom,” he wrote the other day, but the US invasion to bring down Saddam Hussein “set the premise.”