WHILE W DESERVES CREDIT FOR PUTTING US ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY...:

The Bush Doctrine Is Still Working (Peter Ferrara, 7.8.09, American Spectator)

A central theme of President Bush's administration was to promote democracy in the Middle East. He argued that establishing a full fledged democracy in Iraq in the heart of the Middle East would have transforming effects throughout the Muslim World. Even though the promotion of human rights and democracy had been a central theme of liberal foreign policy for decades, the Left ridiculed Bush's policy as hopelessly naïve. Even some on the right echoed this criticism.

But recent trends throughout the Middle East show that this policy is now producing a growing, very powerful effect in countering Islamic extremism and terrorism, just as Bush originally envisioned.

...the point is that it doesn't matter much what we do. The End of History won't be skipping Arabs any more than it did Slavs.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 8, 2009 8:09 AM