: About Me

Is Democracy in the Middle East possible? It is the contention of this author that Democracy within the framework of the Middle East is probably an idea that is best left to the philosophers. Democracy by and large has made its roots in the disaffected masses that yearn for a better way, a solution to the inequities that have kept many groups down. For centuries now, people have looked to Democracy, not as a hand up but a hand out of their politically corrupt countries. They run from every far flung corner of the world toward the beacon that is the United States and the rest of the western...