Ditto the hopes in Friedman's op-ed piece

Op-Ed Columnist
Looking for Luck in Libya
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: March 29, 2011

Welcome to the Middle East of 2011! You want the truth about it? You can’t handle the truth. The truth is that it’s a dangerous, violent, hope-filled and potentially hugely positive or explosive mess — fraught with moral and political ambiguities. We have to build democracy in the Middle East we’ve got, not the one we want — and this is the one we’ve got.

That’s why I am proud of my president, really worried about him, and just praying that he’s lucky.
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