Fawaz al-Ajami, another Arab journalist, said that the Americans were hardly interested in genuine democracy in West Asia since that would lead to a rejection of the US’s strategic plans in the region: [With genuine democracy] the Arab world would say ‘No!’ to US schemes in Iraq; ‘No!’ to the US occupation of Iraq; ‘No!’ to limitless US support to the Zionist enemy, and ‘No!’ to the US characterisation of Palestinian resistance as terrorism; ‘No!’ to US intervention in domestic affairs; ‘No!’ to unlimited US support for Arab dictatorial regimes.
