Monday, April 25, 2011

The New York Times/Noah Feldman's criteria for Democracy in the Middle East

"In Iraq, Bottoms Up for Democracy” (Week in Review, April 17) seems to equate democracy with men getting drunk in bars and ogling women. The fact that “young women beckon men from the doorways of shiny nightclubs” is cited as a positive example of a more progressive, “free-spirited” Iraq."