There are three paths to happiness
for my readers. One is to buy the September Commentary ($4.50), the second is
to buy the Joshua Muravchik article (Among
Arab Reformers) online ($4.95) and the third is
to get it at the library.
Muravchik is
a Jewish neo-conservative who went to Palestine for a four-day conference on
democracy in March and lived to report on it. He found all the makings and excitement of a flourishing democratic
movement. It will warm your heart to
read about it, if you appreciate what George Bush has done.
Muravchik
also went to Egypt and found a similar vitality in the democracy movement
there, with the stipulation that a police state is still in place. The only negative he reports is that peace
with Israel is not an allowable public discussion issue in either place.
The good news
is that the Bush doctrine (some call it the Bush-Sharansky policy) in the Middle
East is working. Democracy has raised
its head and seems to be alive. This
could make George W. Bush the greatest president in U.S. history as history
plays out.
The Bush doctrine only posits peace with Israel after democracy has been created in Palestine.