A more revisionist look at Mustafa Kemal does not back up the contention of the article’s writers that “he was seeking to remake Turkey into a country that would bear a resemblance to France or Great Britain.”

They also do not expand on the hydrocarbon-rich Gulf countries which are beginning to be run more like corporations than nation-states.

“I am sick of the Palestinian-Israeli issue,” President George Bush apparently told Jordan’s King Abdullah in June 2004.

(via POMED)

The CBS report also suggests Arabs are an ungrateful bunch for seeing through the intention of the news channel (my emphasis):

Compared to Al Jazeera, Al Hurra does feature more American and Israeli voices. It has extensive coverage of U.S. politics. Cultural programs, like an hour on blue jeans are among its most popular. But after nearly half a billion dollars, “The Free One” is seen by most Arabs as the U.S. government station, “The Cheney Channel” as some have called it, and that perception is limiting in a region where people tend to look a gift horse in the mouth.