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Gaddafi and the Swindle of Dictatorship

(Wall Street Journal) Fouad Ajami - The fight for right and freedom may not be the animating passion of the moment in Washington. There is little taste at the helm of our government for burdens abroad. This awakening - the Arab Spring - is being second-guessed at every turn. Islamists stalk these rebellions, we are told. The Arabs do not have freedom in their DNA, the "realists" tell us, their revolutions are certain to be hijacked and betrayed. But this is the time when they give freedom a try, and for the first time accept responsibility for their own history. Arabs should be given the time to break out of the habits of tyranny and servitude. We needn't dispatch our forces to all lands of trouble, but our burden of celebrating liberty on foreign shores endures. Good riddance to Gaddafi. He had the end he deserved. The writer is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
2011-10-21 00:00:00
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