Re: The insight of Gibran Tueni may be correct

This is truly stunningly blinding insight!

Egypt, S Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, EU and Canada. So 
while the EU and Canada are lumped in the Mideast in "threat of war 
spurs Mideast shifts", Israel isn't mentioned, other than in contexts 
of others sucking up to it.

This is the arrival of democracy? More like Suharto's New Order 
democracy in place of Sukarno's guided democracy!

kj khoo

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At 4:04 PM -0600 26/2/03, Jerry W. Shepperd wrote:
> Normally only a major shock changes the course of history---the 
> impact of a professionalized Roman Legion, the American 
> Revolutionary War, utter, unconditional,devastated wasteland defeat 
> of WWII Japan and Germany.
>
> The shock of an unconditionally defeated Iraq, accompanied by minor 
> physical damage and Iraqi fatalities is not of such magnitude.  But 
> Tueni is probably correct in anticipating a Middle East shift from 
> dictatorship to democracy.  One question that lingers, however, is: 
> Is that a justifiable reason to invade Iraq?
>
> Jerry Shepperd
>
> Tuesday, February 25, 2003
>
> Threat of war spurs Mideast shifts. U.S. has yet to fire a shot at 
> Iraq, but change is triggered.
>
> Diane Francis, Financial Post