Monday, June 14, 2004

Neocons Rethink Strategy Against Islamic Radicalism by Paolo Pontoniere

The neoconservatives’ conundrum in Iraq emerges very clearly in the recent writings of Fouad Ajami, professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Ajami seems to have lost all the hope that Iraq would become a new beacon of democracy in the Middle East. Admitting he failed to foresee that radical religious beliefs, not democratic ideals, would fill the void left by the fall of Saddam, Ajami writes that even if Iraq survives the current spiral of violence, “The Dream is dead.” Writing recently in The New York Times, Ajami declares, “Lets face it: Iraq is not going to be America’s showcase in the Arab-Muslim world.”

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