Arabs and their voices...

I'm not a huge fan of Thomas Friedman. I find him way too critical of the US, but sometimes he's right on the money. His latest piece on the UN Development Report on the Arab world (blogged on here earlier) has a good last paragraph:

Yes, it's scathing about the Western and Israeli roles in retarding Arab democratization, but it's equally scathing about what Arabs have done to themselves and how they must change: People don't change when you tell them they should, but when they tell themselves they must. Read this report, and you'll also understand why part of every Arab hates the U.S. invasion of Iraq -- and why another part is praying that it succeeds.