And here, Fouad Ajami tosses some pearls of wisdom: "We just don't know the Islamic world. We don't know evil in many ways." But look at this exchange; would any expert get away with such level of deep analysis:
"Gigot: Fouad, about a year ago--almost exactly a year ago--you wrote, in the wake of the successful Iraqi elections, in the ferment in the Middle East, that that area was now Bush country, in the optimistic sense that something was stirring--political ferment. How do you see things a year later?
Ajami: Well, it may be still Bush country more than some other places I can think of." (thanks Amer)