The Emerging “New Middle East”
The Iraq war has overthrown the European-inspired secular nationalism that since 1918 was the driving ideological force of the Middle East. The "new" Middle East certainly isn't the democratic, pro-Western stuff of American neo-conservatives' dreams, but it may present an opportunity to create a regional order that reflects the legitimate interests of all the actors involved.
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President George W. Bush’s Middle East policy undeniably managed to achieve one thing: it has thoroughly destabilized the region. Otherwise, the results are not at all what the United States had hoped to accomplish. A democratic, pro-Western Middle East is not in the cards.