Very funny article in the SF Chronicle today about what a bummer it is, all this democracy catching on in the Middle East. It’s making it hard to organize anti-war demonstrations. The article doesn’t intend to be funny, but I found it hilarious. Here’s a quote:
“(The movement) was on the verge of taking off again a couple of months ago around the inauguration, but then the Iraqi elections confused the picture, ” said Stephen Zunes, a political science professor at the University of San Francisco and an expert on both social movements and Middle Eastern politics. “It is pretty moribund now.”