Decius wrote:
] Ideas don't just spread on their own. Ideas spread in a
] context.
]
] "... an aging developed world ... trying to protect its jobs,
] and ... a young, job-seeking, job-needing emerging world ..."
]
] The region stretching from Morocco to the border of India had
] almost no lights.

Friedman's summary: So if you take anything away from this series, I hope it's this: The war of ideas among Arabs and Muslims can only be fought and won by their own forces of moderation, and those forces can only emerge from a growing middle class with a sense of dignity and hope for the future. Young people who grow up in a context of real economic opportunity, basic rule of law and the right to speak and write what they please don't usually want to blow up the world. They want to be part of it.