Grandmasta at Arabic Media Shack reviews Tamara Cofman Wittes’ new book entitled “Freedom’s Unsteady March: America’s Role in Building Arab Democracy.” Grandmasta disagrees with Wittes’ claim that promoting democracy in the Middle East is in America’s best interests. “Real democracy is certain to empower populist anti-American Arab-Hugo Chavezes, who would not toe the American line. For example, the first thing a representative Egyptian government would do is tell the US to “^*%@- off on Israel-Palestine policy…And economically, Democratically-representative Middle Eastern governments would be anti-free markets and move back towards socialism, which is also not in American interests (as currently defined).”
July 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
you misquoted me; I said …American interests (as currently defined).” You did not include the last part of what I said