Arabian democracy is possible.(Other Countries)

Joshua Muravchik, "Bringing Democracy to the Arab World," Current History, January 2004 (currenthistory.com)

While a large and growing percent age of nations on every continent has freely elected governments, not a single one of the 21 Arab countries gives its citizens a significant say in the affairs of state. The lack of democracy in the Arab world has become a particular concern since 9/11 because as a rule, democratic states, unlike dictatorships, do not breed international terrorists.

Joshua Muravchik divides the world into two camps. One, represented by the likes of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, believes that poverty causes terrorism. The other, which President George W. Bush represents, believes that tyranny itself results in terrorism. Bush, consequently, has attempted to "drain the fever swamps" of Middle Eastern tyranny and sow the seeds of democracy all around the region. Muravchik places himself clearly in the second camp. While Muravchik says "the claim that something in Arab culture makes it resistant to democracy cannot be refuted until the first Arab democracy comes into ...