Gary Farber pointst to an Arab News piece in which the author admits that Arabs don't really give a fig (or a date, as it were) about keeping Sammy in power. Then the fellow adds:"Having killed many Islamists and Nasserites, Saddam is not liked by Al-Qaeda supporters or the Arab left. Taheri predicts that the Arab street will not erupt into fury if Saddam is overthrown, which is probably true. The irony is that although most of the Muslim world will probably welcome regime change in Iraq, it will also probably resent the fact that it was the Americans who did it." This is something along the lines of being beaten up in an alley, having a stranger come by and chase the thugs off, and then complaining that the stranger stopped them from hitting you because you weren't formally introduced... |