Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
The Iraqi war has transformed the Middle East.
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.
I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.