Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and now a senior fellow at Washington-based think tank the Brookings Institution, writes that the revolution in Egypt is a blow to jihadists everywhere:
The jihadist narrative of al Qaeda has suffered a serious blow. If there is a springtime of freedom in the Arab and Islamic worlds, one loser is Osama bin Laden and his gang…This is not al Qaeda’s revolution and its ideology has not been vindicated in Tunis and Cairo. To the contrary, the victory of mass demonstrations and civil disobedience strikes at the very heart of the al Qaeda narrative that proclaims change can only come to the Islamic world through violence and terror, through the global jihad.
Read the full piece.
One thing that I've yet to read in the MSM about the democratic uprisings in Iran/Egypt/Tunisia is this: “George Bush was right”. When Bush claimed that a democracy in Iraq would help spread freedom throughout the region, he was mostly ridiculed by journalists. But now that his prediction is coming true, the entire media seems to completely forget his prediction. Don't you think that he deserves at least a bit of credit for this? Or do you think in 30 years the history books being written will ignore the fact that Iraq was the first democracy in the region, and it was GWB who made it so?