(Washington Post) - Jackson Diehl The Bush administration's embrace of a democratization strategy for the postwar Middle East has produced a flurry of political reforms, quasi-reforms, and grass-roots initiatives in countries across the region. Arab governments, and to some extent their peoples, have absorbed the idea that political change is coming after the war, and are trying to anticipate it. By focusing too narrowly on an Arab-Israeli settlement, as it did after the first Persian Gulf War, there is a danger that the U.S. will allow the window for change in the Arab world to slip away.
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