A U.S. Attack on Iraq Could Launch an Era of Pragmatism

(Newsweek) Mohammed Al-Jassem - The shock of Saddam's fall is needed to bring the Arabs back to reality and away from their political dreamscape. After Saddam's fall, the dismantling of the extremist Islamic parties, and the containment of the Palestinian issue, most Arab rulers will no longer be able to hide from their people by invoking the dangers of "external threats."