The Working Group also recommends that a threshold value be established for the special cases in which the generic fair market value of an item, or a set of items, is higher than 500 and its life expectancy is greater than one year.

The irony is obvious Islamists, who seem suspicious of democracy as a Western plot, took President George W. Bush s promotion of democracy in the Muslim world more seriously than America s autocratic friends and possibly more seriously than Bush himself.