The editor of the Lebanon (Beirut) Daily Star seems to believe the same things that Tom Friedman does: that Arab populations must recognize their governments' failings and start doing something about them.
The Arab people, especially individuals and institutions of civil society, must seek a new path out of this third collective calamity since 1915.We must focus on the first step in an ill person’s march toward recovery, health and growth: honest and dispassionate diagnosis of the underlying problem. Why are we so passive in the face of repeated external reshaping of our world? We must answer that question in order to have a chance of devising strategies to cure the problem, and take control of our lives.
Der Spiegel has an article in its March 17 issue entitled "The Unfettered Gulliver." It's an appraisal of George Bush's America.
Richard Perle declares the UN dead; he says safety through international law is a liberal conceit. I'd call that sour grapes, since the UN wouldn't agree with the Administration, but once again, he's one of the people with the President's ear, so this belief is more dangerous than that.
Posted by Linkmeister at March 22, 2003 10:15 AM