Last week, Front Page Magazine’s David Horowitz, in the midst of explaining why he’s not a neoconservative, argued that Western-style democracy in the Middle East is a fool’s hope:
It looks like we are headed for the same result in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood is poised to win the September elections. The reality is that a totalitarian Islam is the vibrant and increasingly dominant movement in the Arab world. Any elections likely to take place will be on the order of one man, one vote, one time.
While I share David’s fear that the Muslim Brotherhood will come out on top during the elections, I don’t think that reality is set in stone. In fact, not long ago, it looked like Hosni Mubarak was going to grasp onto power until the opposition dragged him out of his palace. There is simply too much time until the elections to say for sure what will happen.
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