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Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.
I've done two USO Tours, one in the Middle East and one in Asia, and spent time with the troops.
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.
Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond.
