Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.
From Stephen Kinzer
My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.
The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.
Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.
No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.
In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable.
Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical reordering of American foreign policy.
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