Bye Bye, Mubarak

Maureen Dowd NYT

``But the way he (Bush) went about it was naïve and wrong. “In many ways, you can argue that the Iraq war set back the cause of democracy in the Middle East,” Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations who worked at the State Department during Bush’s first term, told me. “It’s more legitimate in Arab eyes when it happens from within than when it’s externally driven.”''


``“The notion of trying to figure out a Mubarak option,” he said, of a leisurely transition, “should be dropped.”''


Robert Kagan.