The times, they are a-changin'?

Gregory Djerejian at Belgravia Dispatch has a link-filled post on recent developments in the Middle East. He suggests that the left side of the blogosphere may be slowly (very, very slowly) beginning to shift in Bush's direction:

Juan Cole has, don seatbelts please, written the phrase "positive delevelopment" (ya gotta scroll to the bottom to spot this rarest of birds). Matthew Yglesias is wondering why, er, conservatives aren't more excited about Egypt. There's always something to complain about with regard to those dastardly Bushies, isn't there? They're not, you know, happy enough about what Bush has wrought in Egypt (though doubtless John 'palsy walsy with Hosni' Kerry must be duly gratified, eh?) That said Matt, to his real credit, is calling developments underway in Egypt a real positive and at least a partial, if mid-stream, vindication of Bush's democratization policies in the region. Even Atrios is forced to write something at least arguably positive re: Bush: "George Bush might actually be sincere in his new mission...

Read the whole thing.