The AmericanAssociation of UniversityProfessorsagrees: ". . . critical thinking . . . isthehallmarkof American education—an education designed to create thinkingcitizens for a freesociety."
"A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic, " Churchill warned in an October 1938 speech denouncing the militarization of totalitarian Germany and Italy and their rejection of free-thinking society.
By not thinking the Arab people incapable of establishing a freesociety, the democratic nations of the world will begin to create the real "New Middle East" that so many of us can still dream about.