Jinn of Current Events

James S. Robbins (National Review Online): The federal principle has had some notable successes besides the US. Germany's federal constitution owes much to ours, and has endured better than its Weimar predecessor. Likewise the Japanese constitution. (Both were the products of "regime change.") ... When coalition forces enter Baghdad and begin distributing material assistance, they should also hand out copies of the Dar Al Faris Arabic translation of The Federalist Papers... 

There are of course people who claim that American intervention in Iraq can only have nefarious consequences. What if, by 2050, the Middle East is as prosperous as today's Germany and Japan, two countries liberated by US forces in 1945? Washington Post: President Bush intends to outline his postwar vision for Iraq and the Middle East in a speech tonight designed in part to showcase the administration's belief that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's overthrow would be a significant step toward broad democratic change in the Arab world.