Wow Is Right

Say what you will about Al Jazeera, but the thing about a free, independent press is the incentives it has to show conflict and opposing views.

And while media sources are generally biased, and in the case of Al Jazeera, greatly biased AGAINST us, it is still a step in the right direction, away from state-controlled media that no one in the Arab world trusts (and rightfully so).

So watching this Arab American lady from Los Angeles go ballastic on an Algerian jihadist makes me feel like maybe things will be all right after all.

In the long run, debates such as these on television will benefit the free world way more than the jihadists.

More from A Sullivan, on the economic progress of Northern Iraq, which Saddam wasn't able to wreck for the past ten years because of a no-fly zone.