Fouad Ajami Inspirational Quotes (2)

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.

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