The wise people of Iraq
: Amir Taheri, an Iranian, writes in the Times of London that the Arab street did not erupt in anger, as predicted, at the overthrow of Saddam by the infidel Yanks.
These days the Arab media are full of articles about how the Arabs feel humiliated by what has happened in Iraq, how they are frustrated, how they hate America for having liberated the people of Iraq from their oppressor, and how they hope that the Europeans, presumably led by Jacques Chirac, will ride to the rescue to preserve a little bit of Saddam
