Interesting times

Michael Ledeen wrote this thought-provoking column, which appeared in today's Jewish World Review. To sum it up in one sentence, he looks at the overall situation in the Middle East in a much more optimistic and positive way than do the hand-wringing, gloom-and-doom pundits and opinionmakers of the mainstream media. While reading it, I reflected on an old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." All of us have certainly done that, haven't we?