Lebanese-American Fouad Ajami has been a leading expert on the Arab world for weeks on CNN now. He supported the Iraq War bigtime. Now he’s in the New York Times, “How the Arabs Turned Shame Into Liberty.” He knows the story:
Then, too, the legends of Arab nationalism that had sustained two generations had expired. Younger men and women had wearied of the old obsession with Palestine. The revolution was waiting to happen, and one deed of despair in Tunisia, a street vendor who out of frustration set himself on fire, pushed the old order over the brink.
