There is an old saying, beware your heart’s desire for surely you will get it. Sometimes you have to let people have a little of what they want in order for them to know what it really is.

For instance in regards to Egypt voting for the Muslim Brotherhood if there were elections…who benefits from that more than Mubarek? I heard a young Egyptian on some news program making the point that people in the ME who do not want democracy use the Islamists to make sure they will not get it because people fear the Islamists. And so he says, the dictators like Mubarek work at keeping the Islamists alive and well.

In truth the Iraqis need to confront asSadr. I don’t mean his militia, but the bulk of the Iraqi people who want a future that is not controlled by these fanatics.

The problem then becomes..do we have the time and do they have the courage?