Strategery found

Michael Barone offers this discussion of how people, i.e. liberals and other opponents of the Bush Administration's foreign policy (foreign and domestic), appear to be discovering a new...dare I say..."perspective" on things in the Middle East.

Nearly two years ago I wrote that the liberation of Iraq was changing minds in the Middle East. Before March 2003, the authoritarian regimes and media elites of the Middle East focused the discontents of their people on the United States and Israel. I thought the downfall of Saddam Hussein's regime was directing their minds to a different question: how to build a decent government and a decent society. I think I overestimated how much progress was being made at the time. But the spectacle of 8 million Iraqis braving terrorists to vote on January 30 seems to have moved things up to breakneck speed.

Evidence abounds.

Indeed it does, and he takes a quick but concise trip through it all. There is not much that an amateur pundit can add, so I won't try. Just read the whole thing!