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“Your insight on the new Arab paradigm is perfect and unappreciated almost everywhere. We’ve been basically stuck in the mud in the Middle East ever since the founding of Israel, and Bush has done something that no other Western leader has done: he has set up Arabs to face brother Arabs in a fight for the long-term future. Democracy vs. autocracy; the voting booth vs. the gun; free markets vs. statist-run industries; free media vs. propaganda (see Stakelbeck’s & Bom’s column yesterday on NRO) and personal fulfillment through peacefully living the values of faith, family, work, neighborhood, and country (the Reagan themes in 1980, btw) vs. murderous martyrdom. Again, NO OTHER WESTERN LEADER HAS DONE THIS.”