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Last updated on March 5th, 2018 at 01:44 pm
Fine John Hawkins interview with Mark Steyn. Extract:
Hawkins: Since we invaded Iraq, Qaddafi has given up his WMD’s, Syria has left Lebanon which is having elections, the Egyptians are going to have their first multi-party elections although Mubarak is expected to win, women are being allowed to vote in Kuwait, and now Syria is even talking about implementing some democratic reforms. Are we seeing a reverse domino effect in the Middle-East caused by the invasion in Iraq?
Steyn: Yes. The key moment in the Iraqi situation was a couple of hours into the Arab networks’ election day coverage: they ran out of snide cracks to make about the American occupation, the stooge politicians, etc, and suddenly fell silent as images of four generations of Iraqi families walking to the polls to vote filled the screens. Those images had a profound impact throughout the region. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer and I’m certainly not in favor of that trick many African dictators have learned to master, of holding an election just good enough to get the stamp of approval of Jimmy Carter and the other western patsies. There’ll be a lot of two-steps-forward-one-step-back but what’s happening is real and the momentum is all going Bush’s way.
