Thomas Friedman promotes his favorite Arab autocracies

"Fortunately, there is a third way: the autocracies, monarchies and a few frail democracies that have invested in their people and created islands of decency — Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Kurdistan, Kuwait, Morocco and the U.A.E."  And don't you like it when he promotes a dictatorship (UAE) when he visits that dictatorship? He wrote this piece from UAE. (thanks Peter)