Regime Change in the Arab World

As Islamists have embraced democracy, the West has mistakenly rejected Islamic democracy. Only by enabling Islamist forces to participate openly in politics can the appeal of jihadism be reduced.

Four years into a disastrous military adventure in Iraq and with the global war on terror against ill-defined forces of darkness still inconclusive, the collapse of America’s grand strategy has exposed how ill-conceived was its simplistic recipe for democratic change in the Arab world.

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