Senator
John McCain is suffering from the Arab Spring Syndrome. He remains convinced
that democracy will flower in places like Syria and Egypt if given a
chance. He evidently believes that Islamists can be persuaded to fully
participate in the electoral process and accept the will of the people. In the
words of Bruce S. Thornton, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution,
"McCain has a naive faith in the magic powers of 'democracy' to change a
culture steeped in 14 centuries of religious intolerance, supremacism, and
violence." [more...]
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