Fouad Ajami Quotes

• These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.

  Fouad Ajami

  Country, Writing, Two

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• The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.

  Fouad Ajami

  Spring, Men, Discovery

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• The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

  Fouad Ajami

  Motivation, Iraq, Land

  "Iraq and the Arabs' Future" by Fouad Ajami, www.nytimes.com. December 18, 2002.

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