One of the more appealing aspects of neoconservatism in the wake of 9/11 was its belief - utopian in retrospect, idealist at the time - that the only way past the pathologies of Jihadism was some kind of model Arab democracy that could pave the way for others to follow, thereby draining the Arab desert of the autocracy that breeds terror. We know what happened in Iraq - about as catastrophic a failure as one can imagine. The face-saving patch-up is still unraveling before our eyes, as al...
Published on July 27, 2010 10:07