An interesting perspective. Instant communications will continue to cause ferment in the Islamic world. There really is no turning back the clock by hoping that if America does not sponsor democracy, the Arab world will somehow quiet down. That won't happen as long as the wild Islamists spew their venom. America's secular freedom even with it's dismal excesses of culture and lifestyle is envied, I believe, by many Arabs. It's so much more appealing than what they have now. Ultimately, the great majority of people will reject their own Islamic excesses as preached by the terrorists. We need to continue to show them a better way.
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"At the same time, Arabs are increasingly exposed to the world through the electronic media, and likely to become more angry and frustrated about their degraded status in a globalizing world economy. You don't have to strain to see such forces at play in the blind rage of Islamic radicals, or to suspect that continued "stability" of the sort that has held the region's politics and economies in stagnation for the last 40 years will only make matters worse."
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