The Bush administration has been eager to show the American public (and to some extend the international public) that the Middle East is democratically reforming, and that the administration is succeeding in creating a more democratic and therefore less dangerous region. I wonder if this hasty patting on the back is negatively affecting genuine democratic progress in the region.

It seems as if regimes in the middle east are not making great nor genuine strides toward democracy and instead are only having cosmetic changes, this of course is only in some countries and it is by no mean something among the people.