Once loath even to criticize one of their fellow rulers, Arab leaders have now found themselves struggling to stay ahead of an emboldened Arab public that has looked disparagingly on autocratic regimes that inflict violence against protesters.
Stone's approach has remodeled the U.S. detention system in Iraq and appears to have reduced the practice of putting well-trained extremists back into the community to rejoin the fight in what U.S. military officers disparagingly called a "catch and release" program.