Mark Steyn:The Arabs' Berlin Wall has crumbled

Mark Steyn has release another article, The Arabs' Berlin Wall has crumbled, that deserves reading. Steyn's basic premise always is that Middle East stability is a Very Bad Thing not a Very Good Thing because it creates a hothouse for human monsters (e.g., Saddam, the Taliban, the Iranians, et al). Even if Bush's actions create a bigger mess it cannot be worse than that "stability" that brewed 9/11.

Here's Steyn:

Three years ago, those of us in favour of destabilising the Middle East didn't have to be far-sighted geniuses: it was a win/win proposition. As Sam Goldwyn said, I'm sick of the old clichés, bring me some new clichés. The old clichés - Pan-Arabism, Baathism, Islamism, Arafatism - brought us the sewer that led to September 11. The new clichés could hardly be worse. Even if the old thug-for-life had merely been replaced by a new thug-for-life, the latter would come to power in the wake of the cautionary tale of the former.

Steyn then gives a list of local improvments in the Middle East since the Iraqi Jan 30^th elections when he poinst out something that suprised me:

And, for perhaps the most remarkable development, consider this report from Mohammed Ballas of Associated Press: "Palestinians expressed anger on Saturday at an overnight suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that killed four Israelis and threatened a fragile truce, a departure from former times when they welcomed attacks on their Israeli foes.

Wow! That is a "Cats and Dogs living together" story if I ever heard one. Of course I don't know how widespread this phenomena was. There was a inability to find any pictures of the ritual post terror-attack Palestinian celebrations; so there seems to be movement in the right direction.

I also wonder about those Palestinians who “expressed anger” at the terrorists who were threatening “their” peace. Were they here all along? Were they just keeping quite before because Nobel Peace Prize winner Arafat would have them killed if he were still alive?

Just asking.

via Lucianne.