Lee Smith at Slate responds to Kenneth Pollack’s recently published book entitled “A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East.” “The paradox is that one of our sharpest limitations is that we believe democracy is a universal cure-all, good for all people at all times, when that is almost certainly not the case. However, as Pollack argues, democratic reform seems to be the only thing that will save the Middle East from consuming itself in violence, for the region can get worse than it is now, much worse.”
