-serving fantasy of irremediable autocrats - and of some in the West. Arab governments' policies will become more reflective of their peoples' wishes, even when these are represented, as we now see, by Islamist majorities.America was taught the hard way that it can live with Islamists; after all, it leaves
religious content. He enjoyed watching jihadist videos of beheadings. He also tried to join the French army and the Foreign Legion. The army turned him down because of his criminal record. If the French wouldn't have him, he would join the holy warriors: anything to give him a sense of power and an excuse
Al-Mulla's message was that the Islamists' victory in Egypt's recent election gives them neither executive power nor control of the framing of a new constitution. But General Sami Anan, Chief of Staff and the SCAF's deputy head, quickly countered that al-Mulla's statement does not necessarily
, and their families, who have not committed crimes, could be evicted from their state-subsidized housing. Cameron is also testing arrests for Facebook comments, the suspension of social networks, and more lethal power for police.In Dickens' England, the judiciary was not independent, and newspapers
dreams of the 1960's into the nightmares of the present. The undeniable escalation of violence in too many big-city suburbs, and the emergence of local "Scarfaces" who live totally without rules in a fantasy-like world of brutality, reflect a state that has gone astray. But a pure "
