Aug. 29 -- Victor Davis Hanson does that which I only aspire to do: weave the threads and connect the dots into a coherent account of events. Read Hoping We Fail. I'm only going to give one excerpt to get you started:

The theocrats all over the region wish us to fail as well. Modernism emanating from Iraq would undermine the strictures of the clerics, in empowering women and eroding the fossilized structures of a tribal society. After all, in the war's aftermath, Arab Idol (dubbed another "American invasion" by Islamists) — a thinly veiled spin-off of the American television show — was suddenly earning a 40-million-viewer market share, as Middle Easterners voted for pop stars in a way that they never could for their own leaders.

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