Fouad Ajami writes in the August 6 WSJ about the pitiful living conditions among the 360 million people in Arab countries. Even with all of their oil, "tens of millions of their people live in poverty. Unemployment rates are the highest in the world. All Arab countries combined have a smaller manufacturing output than Finland, a country of 5 million people."
Nevertheless, writes Ajami. unlike George W. Bush's "diplomacy of freedom," our new president's policy is one of "the safety of the status quo, rather than the risks of liberty." I am putting Ajami down as an author I wish to read more, because he is a truth-teller.
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I would love to figure out why people in other countries seem so keen on keeping their people downtrodden. The Arabs have been around for centuries doing this same ole thing. We would be wiser trying to figure that one out first then using either Bush's or Obama's policy.
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