A New 'New Mideast'

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We haven't ehard from Tom for a bit. I will not comment now.

Back in the mid-1990's there was a lot of talk about "a new Middle
East" that seemed to be aborning. It turned out to be, shall we say,
"premature" - as the newest new Middle East came crashing down with
the collapse of Oslo, the breakdown in Arab-Israeli relations, 9/11
and the massive passive support for Osama bin Laden. With hindsight,
it's now easy to see that there could be no "new Middle East" without
a new kind of Middle East politics. It was like trying to build a new
house on swampland. Eventually, it just sank.

Understanding that is the key to understanding the significance of
what is happening today. There are two very radical political
experiments under way in the Middle East. These two experiments are
to the post-9/11 world what the rebuilding of Germany and Japan were
to the post-World War II world - at least in terms of the stakes
involved.

One experiment is the new Palestinian political authority,
spearheaded by Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, which is attempting to
bring real rule of law, financial accountability and control over all
military affairs to the Palestinian leadership. Palestinians are
trying anew to prove that they can rule themselves responsibly, after
so many years of misrule under Yasir Arafat. And the other is the new
political authority that was just appointed by the U.S. in Iraq: the
25-person Governing Council, which is set to write a new Iraqi
constitution, name ministers and prepare Iraq for elections, as
Iraqis try to prove they can rule themselves after so many years of
tyranny under Saddam Hussein.

NY Times (Registration Bullshit to deal with)

[StandWatie]

1. bahahahahahah

And Iraqis have to prove that they really can work together and are willing to sacrifice for the chance to rule themselves. (Why are we offering them $55 million in rewards for finding Saddam and his sons? They should be paying us!) We don't need U.N. or French troops in Iraq right now. We need more Iraqis who want to sacrifice to be free.

That's hillarious, the Iraqi's aren't reacting the way Tom assured everyone they would and his tired little mind can't quite grasp that he never knew what the hell he was talking about.