French Flavors/ Free Trade Posted by Shadi Hamid

Hmm. The French want permanent military bases in the Gulf too!

In other news, one can expect a "free-trade agreement between the GCC and EU to be completed before the end of the year." Sounds good to me. Except that there are no democracies in the Gulf Cooperation Council, it boasts at least a couple countries which are among the world's most authoritarian. Free trade agreements are fine, but if the U.S. and Europe have economic leverage (which they do), perhaps they should tie economic benefits to other other things we supposedly care about like, um, human rights, freedom of the press, and judicial reform. 

If any DA readers want to make the argument that free trade agreement > economic development > growth of strong Middle Class > pressure for democracy, then go ahead. Sadly, these causal arrows are not particularly operable in the Middle Eastern context.

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Hmm. The French want permanent military bases in the Gulf too!

Yes, although they appeared to acquire this new base the civilized way: by negotiating for it with the host government.

We chose the crude and barbarous approach of invading a country and blowing up a lot of its people.

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