Iraq Reviews > Fouad Ajami: The Autumn of the Autocrats

[ Seeker Blog] This essay for Foreign Affairs, May/June 2005, is no exception. The legacy media continues to assert that the dramatic changes afoot in Lebanon and Syria have nothing to do with the hated Bush Doctrine, and certainly nothing to do with the liberation of Iraq.

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[Realign This!] MEdia Self-reflection Continues: I'm grateful for Weisman's honesty, and would like to think I'd get similar responses from writers who in just a few days last week told Times readers what "political analysts say" about declining crime rates, "industry analysts" about Internet marketing of car parts and "analysts in Damascus" about the Syria-Iraq border. I'd have much more faith in assertions attributed to these ghosts if they were instead made in the authors' own voices.

Gseis.ucla.eduhttp://www.gseis.ucla.edu [Gseis.ucla.edu] Blog Left: Critical Interventions Warblog (war blog, Iraq ...: The story that one of the US Iraq weapons inspectors is a member of an S&M .Democrats, who assert that the Republicans simply paid lip service to the .

[Massright.com] PPK Blog (Priest, Prophet, King): Random Thoughts Archives: they got raped), the widespread thuggism and organized crime in the mideast, assorted murders and beheadings of civilians, the abottoires in Falluja, the repeated attacks on non-Islamic civilians all over the Islamic world, Theo Van Gogh, the coddling and support of terrorists by the regimes of Syria and Iran, the attempt to destabilize Iraq by Syria and Iran, the widespread corruption and atrocities against human rights, the potential of nuclear nightmare (and our necessary nuclear response), the fact that hyper anti-americanism is cynically wielded by fundamentally evil regimes to control their populace, and the fact that our duty as Americans is to protect and defend those good and great things about America from all enemies external and internal, and that, beyond duty, it is American heroism at it's finest which allows us to fight and die to bring the great boons of freedom and democracy to other people in the world.

Cleveland.comhttp://www.cleveland.com [Cleveland.com] cleveland.com: Weblogs: surveys, and measurable data using Technorati’s blog search engine, which tracks more .Vast change was afoot in the Middle East in the early ”˜70s, .

Brothersjudd.blogspot.comhttp://brothersjudd.blogspot.com [Brothersjudd.blogspot.com] <Brothers Judd Blog>: One of the dark and bloody oaths OJ made me swear when he offered to loose me upon you was that I would not do the blogdance: hey, look at Instapundit's riff on Vodkapundit's fisking of Calpundit's post about Andrew Sullivan. Nevertheless, I am linking to a Mark Steyn column about a Mark Kingwell column, rather than directly to Kingwell, because, first, I'd much rather read Steyn and, second, he highlights exactly what I want to talk about.

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