Egypt And The Future Of Arab Democracy: Get Rid Of Islamists, And Freedom Will Thrive

Egypt And The Future Of Arab Democracy: Get Rid Of Islamists, And Freedom Will Thrive -- Charles Krauthammer, New York Daily News

Today, everyone and his cousin supports the "freedom agenda." Of course, yesterday it was just George W. Bush, Tony Blair and a band of neocons with unusual hypnotic powers who dared challenge the received wisdom of Arab exceptionalism - the notion that Arabs, as opposed to East Asians, Latin Americans, Europeans and Africans, were uniquely allergic to democracy. Indeed, the left spent the better part of the Bush years excoriating the freedom agenda as either fantasy or yet another sordid example of U.S. imperialism.

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