geez Scoob - blogs for sources? if you're that desperate for juicy quotes, why not just go down to your local corner tavern and round up some quotes off the barflies?
regardless of what you think of the writer, the point is valid. for whatever reason, there is no true representative democracy anywhere in the Middle East (and before anyone trots out Egypt, Turkey, Qatar et al as exceptions to this, go do some homework). the PNAC/Paul Wolfowitz fantasy that we can force democracy on the Middle East is taking the US down a road with no end. while democratizing the Middle East is a laudable goal, it is also impossible...a straw brick in the foundation of our Middle East policy. the tragedy is that it's gonna cost thousands of American lives and billions of taxpayer dollars before anybody stops this runaway train.