That has also been the result of Bush’s ill-conceived democracy crusade in the Arab world. Bush discovered to his dismay that any exercise in Arab democracy is bound to usher in anti-Western Islamists, be it the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shia parties in Iraq, or Hamas in Palestine.
美国在伊拉克的惨败如果有一点作用的话，那就是给中东地区现状的挑战者们壮了胆子。这也是不时计划不周的、在阿拉伯世界推行民主圣战的结果。布什难过地发现，在阿拉伯只要实行民主就会招致反西方的伊斯兰份子，无论他们是埃及的穆斯林兄弟会还是伊拉克的什叶派党派或者是巴勒斯坦的哈马斯。