Democracy in Iraq is Revolutionary

Belgravia Dispatch cites a BBC story that states activists, "want to limit the president to two terms in office and to ensure that he is democratically chosen in a pluralist election." The most striking sentence in the BCC story is this: "With the United States launching repeated initiatives for reform in the Middle East, all governments in the region feel under pressure to declare a commitment to some kind of change."

In an earlier post, Belgravia links to this NYT story. The Times reports, "The Iraqi election next month may be evoking skepticism in much of the world, but here in northeastern Syria, home to concentrations of several ethnic minorities, it is evoking a kind of earnest hope.
'I believe democracy in Iraq must succeed,' Vahan Kirakos, a Syrian of Armenian ethnicity, said recently. 'Iraq is like the stone thrown into the pool.'"

Belgravia makes the observation that its not exactly the Iraq effort producing the effects, but pushes the cause back one step. The Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative is part of the Neocon vision to fight terror by promoting democracy. Iraq is just an example in the US effort to create change in the MidEast to advance modernity and undermine Salafi Jihad. In that sense, Iraq is the the stone throne into the pool.