Arabs "Giddy" Over Freedom

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit, I (and thousands of others) found this Fouad Ajami piece in Opinion Journal, which leads with, "To venture into the Arab world, as I did recently over four weeks in Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq, is to travel into Bush Country." In the homes and on the streets in four Arab countries, Bush is lionized and the itch for freedom is getting some good scratching. Excerpt:

The speed with which Syria quit Lebanon was astonishing, a race to the border to forestall an American strike that the regime could not discount. I met Syrians in the know who admitted that the fear of American power, and the example of American forces flushing Saddam Hussein out of his spider hole, now drive Syrian policy. They hang on George Bush's words in Damascus, I was told: the rulers wondering if Iraq was a crystal ball in which they could glimpse their future.