Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: How the Internet Is Backfiring on Arab Governments, By Noah Barron

Beautiful piece that reinforces how connectivity will drive change in the youth-bulging Middle East. It is the railroad of the American West, and it will change everything in the end.

This revolution will be blogged from below and not driven by decapitating regime change.

And I can't wait, as the West's Middle East experts are an insufferable lot that remind me of the bitchy old bunch of Western Sov experts. Heard any of them lately? Hell no! Now you can find tons of Russians who do it better on the spot.

Fortunately for me, globalization's got a ways to go...

Thanks to Christopher Mewett for sending this one in.