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Iraq : Democratizing the Middle East-Pro
- Bringing Democracy to the Arab World
-- There are 22 Arab countries. Of the world's 170 other governments, 121, or 71 percent, are elected. The number of Arab countries with freely elected governments: 0.
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- Democracy for Arabs, Too
-- Until now the United States has refrained from lending its weight to democratization in the Arab world the way it did with considerable success in Eastern Europe and Latin America. We won't know what we can achieve until we try. The reason for doing so there, as elsewhere, is not "duty" but to make the world safer--not least for ourselves.
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- Democracy in the Middle East
-- WHAT WILL our invasion of Iraq unleash? Our greatest challenge may be not the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction but the subsequent reconfiguration of the Middle East. What happens inside Iraq on the day Saddam Hussein is gone will reveal American intentions, capabilities, and morality. What we do in Iraq will set the stage for success or failure in the entire region.
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- Freedom and the Arab World
-- The root cause of terrorism is not poverty but autocracy and tyranny. A new study ranks most Muslim nations low in terms of liberty. Although Islam is not inherently incompatible with freedom, new movements of radical Islam and obsessive hatred toward Israel very likely have kept democracy at bay. This lack of freedom nurtures rage and fanaticism, which in turn can lead to terrorism.
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- Paying Attention to the Middle East's "Freedom Deficit"
-- The war on terrorism properly understood is an effort to remake the unremittingly violent, illegitimate and increasingly dangerous political order in the Middle East. It's about ending deficits of freedom for people who resented us when we looked the other way. That's why it's also a war about states like Afghanistan under the Taliban and Iraq under Saddam as well as so-called non-state actors like al-Qaeda and Hamas.
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- The Real Foe Is Middle Eastern Tyranny
-- The debate over the coming war is a classic case of focusing so narrowly on a single tree that the forest vanishes from view. Our leaders are so deeply engaged in the case against Saddam Hussein that they have lost sight of the broader terrorist threat. And this, in turn, threatens their strategy for the war itself.
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- Who Wins Without War?
-- Peacenik protestors haven't thought through the consequences of not going to war.
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- Why We Need a Democratic Iraq
-- Advancing democracy in Iraq is the only way Washington can avoid that which the realpoliticians most fear: instability, or the "Lebanonization of Iraq."
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