Is this the end of the Caudillo Arab world?

Washington Times ^ | Monday, March 24, 2003 | Amir Taheri

[JohnHuang2]

Although it is too early to envisage the shape of a future Iraqi state, we may be witnessing the bankruptcy of a model of statehood developed in several Arab countries during the 20th century.

Most of the states where the model developed came into being after the First World War and the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. Britain and France, the colonial powers that had inherited the Arab provinces of the Ottomans, created the new states.

[JohnHuang2]

Monday, March 24, 2003

Quote of the Day by Erasmus

[XBob]

bttt - good article, lousy title

[patent]

bump.

[PGalt]

Good history, lousy direction for new approach. The solution to their problems is a document already written. It's called the Constitution. Its basis for creation, is individual FREEDOM.