Oct 16
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It began with the Middle Eastern conflagrations, which spread like wildfire across the Muslim crescent: from Tunisia, to Egypt, to Yemen, to Syria, and to Libya. Touted as a far flung “democratic” movement, supposedly spontaneous in nature and fueled by social media technology like Twitter and Facebook, there are still many questions lingering about the [...]
Oct 9
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Comparing the two groupings is popular this week but mostly as a tool to denigrate the TeaFolk. Here’s a different take, a factual attempt at comparison: AGES: Occupiers: young; Teafolk: middle aged and up. EDUCATION: Occupiers: heavy on college; Teafolk: a cross section of the middle class. WORK HISTORY: Occupiers: heavy on unemployed; Teafolk: a [...]
Oct 6
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The vague and peaceful little knots of Lefties on Wall Street are taking on a new look, a new magnitude and a new attitude as Congressional Dems sympathize and union muscle moves in. Is the whole thing a spontaneous reaction or a Van Jones setup to deflect the heat from Obama? Three consecutive reports will [...]
If the government creates a debt so big that persons who are not old enough to vote or have not yet been born will have to pay for it, is that not in effect, Taxation Without Representation? just sayin’…
Sep 19
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Rule #1 for all conservatives ought to be this: Never let the left frame the debate or define the terms. They have created a political climate that insures leftward drift over more than two centuries. This drift was noted by former editor of National Review John O’ Sullivan who coined O’Sullivan’s First Law: All organizations [...]
The debate seemed to be: Raise the Debt Ceiling or Don’t Raise the Debt Ceiling?
Really? How about: This Whole Thing Could have Been Easily Avoided If We Stopped Buying DEBT! Pay it down. Zero Debt NOW. Mandate: All pork barrel spending automatically goes toward the debt until its Gone.
Step One: Last Years Revenues? THAT’s your baseline budget. No more legislating dollar amount spending:The NEW deal is a percentage of Last Years Revenue. Shave off -I dunno- 20%? off the top for the debt. The other 80% is what congress has to work with. The amount is decided, only how big of a slice goes where is left to decide. End of story, Morning Glory.
Jun 10
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Having some time kill this week and being a bit of a bookworm, I splurged and bought Ann Coulter’s latest offering, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America, and devoured it between various chores. Being a good conservative, Ms. Coulter’s work is always on the radar, but not always as easily digested and appreciated [...]
NATO have given a picture-perfect representation as to why they cannot and should never have been trusted in leading air raids against Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi’s government.
That they would begin to cower from people like China, Russia and Brazil (the first two are utter Human Rights abusers, and in Brazil, they indigenous community may have some unflattering words for the central government in Brasilia) shows that they have neither the spine nor the stomach to finish off Gadhafi.
It is far better that they pack their bags and go home rather than try to impress fellow Euro-weenies and play soldier.
Apr 28
“The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it [...]
Yemen is not talked about so much in the news these days, but this will be a pivotal battleground between Sunni and Shia ideologies. Saleh was a run-of-the-mill third-rate Socialist, and no one will miss him but his cronies. However, Al Qaeda is active in the area, and if the establish a strong beachhead here, there will be problems, most assuredly.
Syndicated columnist and Fox News Contributor Charles Krauthammer worries that Iran is taking full advantage of the West’s interfering in Arab affairs to speed up the development of their nuclear weapons capability. All that time playing hero to people who loathe us in Libya will come back to haunt us if Iran gets the bomb.
All that trouble for Muammar Gaddhafi to stay in power? Interesting. It doesn’t look like the rebels in Benghazi wish to play along, however, for the time being.
Is this a power-play on the part of Mohamed ElBaradei? Is he looking to cast his lot in with the Muslim Brotherhood? If so, his true colors are showing. He behaved despicably during the Iraq engagement, and has been a thorn to both American and Israeli interests for some time. Egypt’s fortunes are slowly slipping away, and it will become a state along the lines of Iran if the brave Egyptian populace doesn’t do away with their refuse quickly.
From Cal Thomas over at Real Clear Politics:
If there were an award for stating the obvious when it comes to the Middle East, it would go to the New York Times. On its front page last Friday, the newspaper ran a story headlined, “Islamist Group is Rising Force in New Egypt.”
What group would that be? Why, the Muslim Brotherhood, of course. We have been repeatedly assured by certain pundits and members of the Obama administration that the Brotherhood are a small minority with no major influence in Egypt.
Read the rest of the article here. The NYT are shockingly ignorant sometimes.
Hugh Hewitt isn’t terribly impressed with the New York Times’ analysis of the melee in Syria and what it will do for relations with Israel.
According to the Financial Times, Syria is becoming the new hotspot for dissent in the Middle East. Scores have already been massacred, but the people don’t seem to have any more fear of dictator Bashar al-Assad anymore.
Powerline Blog shows stills of a video taken in Tripoli today. It is of a woman reporting to foreign journalists that she was beaten and raped. Militiamen loyal to Muammar Ghaddafi then proceed to drag her away, despite reporters and others’ attempts to protect her.
Hypocritical? The same organization who lied about ties to Saddam Hussein in order to maintain a bureau office in Baghdad? Nah!
I’m very curious to see how this play out. Will Nic Robertson and CNN be vindicated, or have they been outed as tools of a dictator? Time well tell.
France and the United Kingdom looked to be leading the push for a no-fly zone in Libya, which seemed admirable. Unfortunately, they seem to be more content in pushing the U.S. into the forefront now, so that they can deflect any criticism and hector us down the road for going in.
Foreign Policy Magazine has more on this unfortunate situation here.
What disgusting wretches the so-called ‘world community’ is. They watch the slaughter in Libya, in Bahrain, in Saudi Arabia, and what do they do? Nothing. The West should forever hang its head in shame if Muammar Gaddhafi and the other monstrous clowns ruining the Middle East are allowed a victory.
Michael Cohen of World Politics Review writes on the “Do Something” crowd.
STRATFOR analyzes the battle in Bahrain. This is an extremely important field of operations to watch, as this is where both Saudi Arabia and Iran are conducting a proxy war against each other. Where some Shi’a and Sunni will work together against outside influences (i.e. The United States), left to their own devices, they are happy to destroy each other.
George Friedman and company always make for intriguing reading:
Bahrain and the Battle Between Iran and Saudi Arabia – Bahrain has turned into a proxy war for Shi’a and Sunni Muslims led by Iran and Saudi Arabia.
How a Libyan No-fly Zone Could Backfire – Don’t be so quick to stick your nose where it doesn’t belong. The SAS tried that and ended up having men captured by those they were supposed to be assisting.
Oh, isn’t it the truth…
Kathleen Parker admonishes her Western feminist friends to take a look at what really being a feminist means in the eyes of women from the Middle East. There is truth in saying that women from the West gave up an integral part of their femininity when they gained equality with men.
It would be most interesting if the women of ConClub would be so kind as to pour their thoughts into this article.
This article hits a bit close to home as one of my dearest friends is working in Safat, just outside of Kuwait City. Kuwait is as tough to operate in as Saudi Arabia is, but now even Kuwaitis have tired of their leadership. The Middle East gets more and more interesting each day.
Mar 7
Looking at the upheaval in Libya and what seems like a looming realignment of world power towards a new paradigm, one cannot help but make three observations about life and politics in the 21st century. 1. Might Still Makes Right Though defensive violence will always be ‘a sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of [...]
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Well, first of all, Newt is in, or well maybe, we’re not really sure. But he’s got a new website to add to the myriad of sites, foundations, PAC’s and the like that make up Newt Inc. How he’ll do in a crowded primary is anyone’s guess, but like Palin, he doesn’t really appeal to [...]
I have to admit that I’m impressed with the “rebels” of Libya. They’ve managed to hold off Muammar Ghaddafi’s goons for some time now in many towns across the country, and may well wear the dictator into submission, inshallat.
Yemen burns, just like Oman, Bahrain and Libya. This one is worth concentrating on as a radical leader, Abdul Majid al-Zinadi, a former mentor to Osama bin Laden, is leading the charge against Yemen’s leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The great dying scribe, Christopher Hitchens, really lays into President Obama on his rather tepid and pathetic war of words against Muammar Ghaddafi. I can see why young Libyans might hate us at this moment.
One can only hope he commits this one good act of his life very soon before more innocent Libyans get massacred by this monster.
In other news, CNBC reports that there are unsubstantiated rumors Gaddhafi has been shot. Fingers crossed.
“I will not leave the country, I will stay until the last drop of blood is spilled. Those who defy me will be executed. I will not leave. I will die as a martyr. Damn those who try to stir unrest.” – Gaddafi
“We are not Egypt. We are not Tunisia. We have guns and we will use them. Instead of 84 deaths (as in Egypt), there will be thousands of deaths. Rivers of blood will run through all the cities of Libya. We will keep our country. We will not leave.” – Gaddafi’s next eldest son, Saif El-Islam Gaddaf
In less than a week Libya went from Egyptian style street protests to full-scale civil war. In a rapid meltdown senior members of the Libyan regime have resigned and publicly condemned Khadafi, his army units are picking sides, he delivered a crazy speech on state television, scores of bodies litter the street of Tripoli, rebellious elements now control at least 30% of the country and it appears mercenaries are the only real force keeping him propped up at all. The ‘February 17th’ revolution turned out to not be a paper tiger at all.
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George Friedman of STRATFOR provides a synopsis of the upheaval in the Ummah.
One can only hope this is true. Though there was some sort of statement made that Muammar Ghaddafi never left, it wouldn’t be out of line for this cretin to lie about running like a scared girl from his country. May some Libyan with a grievance take this bastard out.
Poor Bahrainis. They want to eat and have housing, or so report the press. What you really have here is the fact that Shia and Sunni can never live together, and will only work together if the enemy is so hideous that they have no choice. Still, the royal family of Bahrain deserve the chopping block for firing on their citizens indiscriminately. HT: Breitbart.
Those who were pessimistic about the role Egypt’s military played in the Cairo uprising can now feel justified. The Egyptian Military just allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to allow extremist cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi back into the country. Qaradawi is a noted intellectual inside of Al-Ikhwān, as the Muslim Brotherhood is known in Egypt. That the military have provided a guard for this cretin’s return shows that they are not on the side of democracy, but will be part of aiding the development of a new Islamist state. Woe to Miṣr. Thanks to Dave Reaboi who posted the article at Big Peace.
I thought I’d take a look and check out a foreign perspective on the upheaval in the Maghreb and the Middle East. This story comes from Macedonia. Arab leaders are trying to get Muammar Ghaddafi to quit massacring his people. As if he’d listen.
Brendan O’Neill’s article in The Australian is right on target. He mentions Rachel Corrie, and although I feel sad for her family, her death should be educational for future protesters. The moral of her story is…don’t play chicken with a bulldozer, because you will lose.
“Until the Palestinians are given back their rights we’re going to have instability throughout the Middle East,” declared John Pilger on ABC1′s Q & A last night. “That is central to everything.”
Yet, one of the most striking things about the uprising in Egypt was the lack of pro-Palestine placards. As Egypt-watcher Amr Hamzawy put it, in Tahrir Square and elsewhere there were no signs saying “death to Israel, America and global imperialism” or “together to free Palestine”. Instead, this revolt was about Egyptian people’s own freedom and living conditions.
Yet on the pro-Egypt demonstration in London on Saturday, there was a sea of Palestine placards. “Free Palestine”, they said, and “End the Israeli occupation”. The speakers had trouble getting the audience excited about events in Egypt, having to say on more than one occasion: “Come on London, you can shout louder than that!” Yet every mention of the word Palestine induced a kind of Pavlovian excitability among the attendees. They cheered when the P-word was uttered, chanting: “Free, free Palestine!”
This reveals something important about the Palestine issue. In recent years it has moved from the realm of Arab radicalism, where Egyptians and other peoples frequently demanded the creation of a Palestinian state, and has instead become almost the exclusive property of Western middle-class radicals, such as Pilger.
Emptied of its nationalist vigour and militancy, the Palestine problem, it seems, is now of little immediate interest to protesting Arabs and is instead the ultimate cause celebre for Western liberal campaigners who like nothing more than having a victimised people they can coo over.
Military armored personnel carriers in Bahrain
Armored personnel carriers are being deployed to oppose the uprising in Bahrain. Related videos are linked down the right side of this YouTube page.
Breitbart and the AP report that Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, is active with protesters trying to dislodge the current regime led by Ali Abdullah Saleh. The contagion spreads.
In šāʾ Allāh. The hemmerhoid running and ruining Libya for nearly four decades has brought little to the country but managing to make himself a rich pain in the rear for not only America, but Africa, The Maghreb and the Arab world in general. Good riddance to him if the Libyans can throw him out and kill off any undue radical influence.
This is an addendum to the story of the reporter who was sexually assaulted in Cairo during the revolution. One needs to see what kind of culture is being vaunted as ‘revolutionary’. In other news, a douchebag by the name of Nir Rosen lost his job for making some incredibly stupid comments against the reporter in question, Lara Logan, who probably has more balls than this loser. HT: National Review.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of two Libyan cities overnight in the first sign that the unrest that toppled governments in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt has spread to the North African nation.
Witnesses said protesters in the eastern port city of Benghazi set fire to vehicles and fought with police in a rare outbreak of unrest in the oil-exporting country. They also chanted slogans demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi.
Now here’s a revolution I could get behind wholeheartedly. Once a part of a Colonel’s coup himself the wily old survivor of the desert has held on to power far longer than one would think a half-crazed tin pot dictator would be able to. His old habits of vigorously supporting terror against the West and Israel have mellowed somewhat over the last decade or more but occasionally he continues to be a problem and finds a way to jab his finger into the eye of the West. It will be interesting to see how vigorously the “Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya” or “Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution” as he is known (he holds no public office or title) would move to put down some serious street protests if they were to develop. The wave of revolutionary fever continues to spread across the Middle East and we will closely monitor the situation over the coming days.
We have a new hotspot to watch. Protesters have taken over the main square in Manama, the capital of Bahrain.
The Cretin of Tripoli has the unmitigated gall to call for Palestinians to revolt against Israel (who will crush them if they try) while Libya is beginning to feel the heat inside its own country.
The contagion spreads. A protester died today in Bahrain, despite the royal family trying to pay off protesters with a (by their standards) large amount of cash to quell another revolution. The so-called “Arab Street” smells blood everywhere. This will not end soon.
Things are about to get VERY interesting now that Hosni Mubarak has been ousted via military coup.
As grave as the situation might be in Egypt, and God willing it will normalize soon, there is a possible side-effect developing from the revolution; Iran’s Green Movement might reignite, tiring of the Mad Mullahs, awful Ayatollahs and the rats ruling the roost in Tehran.
Hosni Mubarak may be an evil thug, but in the real world, one has to admit he was “our” evil thug, meaning America’s. That he was shows what a mistake we made. We should have been fostering ties with real democrats in order for them to develop leaders who would have been able to assist in making a smoother transition. The only ones who would resist would be the sort of people we rightly call our enemies. Most Egyptians are not keen on seeing the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood. Why would they? At least under Mubarak’s less-than-democratic (by a long shot) rule, the poor were at least able to eat bread made with subsidized wheat. Jihadis and MB members need to eat, too, so who do you think will feel the brunt of this overturning in Egypt? It won’t be the troublemakers.
As for Mubarak, I had heard a man mention a rather interesting scenario. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu was faced with a somewhat similar situation. Rather than leaving gracefully, his security services, obviously loyal to him, decided to go hard-line against the population, and it turned out that the army switched sides at the opportune moment. He would be executed for crimes against his state. The Egyptian Army is in a similar quandary. Does one really think that Mubarak has enough sway at this point to get the army to attack citizens? If Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, is delusional enough to think that the army will attack protesters, he’ll be in for a disappointment (and maybe end his days via a rope around his neck). The best scenario I see would be for Mubarak to feign illness and leave with his estimated $70 billion robbed from Egyptian coffers. He’s too arrogant, too much of a pharaoh to do that. He will have his security forces attack the citizens, the army will intervene, martial law will ensue, and Hosni Mubarak will be shot in the back of the head.
Then the fun really begins.
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What more can one add to this? God bless the Copts and those Muslims who love their neighbors more than the murderous swine who share their religion hate them.
Cross-posted at Apocatastasis.
Stephen F. Hayes at The Weekly Standard comments that, while some Conservatives may not want to admit it, the Obama Administration is indeed aware of the trouble the Muslim Brotherhood could cause if they seize power in Egypt, and are doing what they can to guide democracy in.
I’m far more skeptical, as the Obama Administration has been slow to respond to the events occurring all over the Middle East. Perhaps now it’s time for them to save face and start looking for serious democracy-minded groups to collaborate with, rather than relying on placating terrorists or supporting knuckle-dragging thugs.
We in the West rarely stop to think of the human toll riots and revolutions cause. Take the case of Mohammed Said Ali, whose son went missing. Laura King covers this tragedy for the New York Times.
Hosni Mubarak has seen pretty much everyone resigning, even his own son and heir-apparent, Gamal (don’t be stupid enough to believe Hosni when he says he never intended for Gamal to take over, as the man is a liar of the worst order). Hosni’s day is done.
We simply await the next chapter: democracy, a real one, or the Muslim Brotherhood and their fellow travelers?
Every idiot in the Middle East thinks it’s “The Joooooooos” conspiring against them. Kind of like here, but nastier. Canary In The Coal Mine blogs on the sheer hypocrisy of Mubarak and his goon squad.
Michael Totten talks Iran, The Revolution there, and the mess in the Middle East with author Abbas Milani.
Pro-government demonstrators, bottom, watch as cars burn during clashes with anti-government demonstrators, behind barriers at top, in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Feb. 3. Hundreds of people were injured in the clashes in which the two sides rained stones, bottles and firebombs on each other as soldiers stood by without intervening. The demonstrations began as an effort to force President Hosni Mubarak from power. (Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)
It was almost surreal to watch a titanic battle with thousands of participants being waged in the streets of Cairo. And until tonight it was fought without guns but instead like some sort of medieval battle with rocks, clubs, and machetes. A fifteen hour plus battle that waged fiercely throughout the day. When was the last time you saw fifty or sixty men mounted on horses and camels charge a crowd? Quite the sight. Several people have been killed and probably well over one thousand wounded in the melee. It is escalating even as I type this post as guns come into play and people are torched by Molotov cocktails.
And the Egyptian army? It pretty much (literally) closed down the hatches and watched it all play out. Various elements seemed to help first one side and then the other at times and otherwise they would briefly emerge to douse a fire or fire off a few tear gas canisters before the soldiers once again retreated to the safety of their tanks and APCs.
I predicted that Mubarak was no pushover and Egypt no Tunisia. How long he can hold on is anyone’s guess. Friday is set to be another ‘day of rage’ and it will be interesting to see if the government can hold together its impromptu gang of thugs in the face of very large numbers of anti-Mubarak crowds over the next couple of days. We are approaching the critical mass here. The next forty-eight to seventy-two hours will probably be decisive one way or another for one side or the other. If the army fractures we may see a more serious type of civil war erupt. If one side or the other triumphs in the streets we may see a low-level civil conflict continue between the sides for some time to come. Very hard to predict what will unfold.
The Obama administration and Western intelligent agencies have shown themselves to once again be woefully inept in seeing this coming. Do we not have one person on the ground in either country? Absolutely shameful. And what, pray tell, can we expect if the Muslim Brotherhood was to seize control of the Egyptian government you ask? Well, they’ve made that very clear already. Already the Left is assuring us that we have nothing to fear if they come out on top. Makes you wonder why progressives continue their de facto alliance with Islamists the world over. It makes no sense except they share the same deep-seated hatred of Judeo-Christian values, Western Civilization, and Israel I guess.
Muhammad Ghannem told an Iranian news network that if he and the Muslim Brotherhood had his way, the Suez Canal would be closed immediately. This would not only hurt capital coming in for the Mubarak government, but it would have further repercussions, as one-third of the world’s oil is transported through the canal. This could increase the price of oil and gas substantially.
Continuing, Ghannem stated that gas flowing from Egypt to Israel should stop immediately, “in order to bring about the downfall of the Mubarak regime.” Once again, this would hurt the Mubarak regime and would also hurt the Israeli economy in the process.
However, Ghannem’s most provocative statements came about war with Israel. Talking about what the Muslim Brotherhood is prepared to do, Ghannem stated that “the people should be prepared for war against Israel.” This implies that a war with Israel could be inevitable if the group takes substantial power in Egypt.
A good number of videos showing the extent of the chaos can be found here.
A man watches a burning APC
A friend and I recently engaged in a brief discussion about a change (if any) in the dynamics of Egypt’s current revolt situation considering one difference… guns in the hands of the people. It makes one wonder. A proponent of individual gun rights, I find myself somewhat impressed at the results over there. Not only do the protesters not have arms, but the military is refraining from firing their weapons, other than “soft” ammunition when needed. Are the Egyptians just that much more civilized?
You know things are pretty bad when liberal pundits like Richard Cohen of the Washington Post call the situation in the Middle East in general and Egypt in particular “chaos.” From Mr. Cohen:
Things are about to go from bad to worse in the Middle East. An Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement is nowhere in sight. Lebanon just became a Hezbollah state, which is to say that Iran has become an even more important regional power, and Egypt, once stable if tenuously so, has been pitched into chaos. This is the most dire prospect of them all. The dream of a democratic Egypt is sure to produce a nightmare.
Here’s more analysis as we observe the fall of Hosni Mubarak: The Egypt Crisis in a Global Context: A Special Report
Egyptian Police Redeploying
Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard offers some suggestions for Egyptian foreign aid. Namely, ‘cut it off’.
Philip Shenon of The Daily Beast makes a very good case for Muammar Gaddafi to be very, very worried right about now. It would be nice to see another tyrant fall, but again, what will replace him?
STRATFOR provides its usual excellent analysis on what is happening in Egypt. Though I rarely side with Zazu or Andre on anything (except perhaps music), they are right to point out that we have supported trash in order for them to hold off even worse trash. That has to end. We do need to support dissident groups who are more amenable to American concerns. Here is another concern: Hamas is able to cross the border from the Palestinian Territories into Egypt pretty much unhindered thanks to the chaos ensuing at the moment. This means they are wilfully trying to help the Muslim Brotherhood take over the reins of power in Egypt. If they do, that will almost assuredly mean war in the Middle East, and if that happens, it’ll spread out quickly throughout the Maghred, the Arabian Peninsula, and possibly into Turkey and Southern Europe. Attach that with the headaches in Chechnya, and you have a recipe for a very hot summer, war-wise.
If there were ever a moment to utterly loathe David Axelrod for being a lying, worthless tool, now would be it. He had the audacity (of hope no one would pay attention to what he said) to tell ABC’s Jake Tapper the quote above. I hope this douche-bag gets rolled for this.
The Guardian reports on the utter madness occurring in the Middle East. Other blogs have called Cairo a “war zone,” as people have finally had it with decrepit monsters running (and ruining) their countries. Arab now have a choice to make: democracy, in whatever fashion would work in the Arab world which would allow them to maintain friendly relations with the rest of the world, or leadership by those who will ensure their own Armageddon.
The good times have just ended in analyst-land. Where were the Islamists while the revolution occurred? They were planning how to seize power. Enter Rachid Ghannouchi, who had been in exile for years in London. He is not Osama bin Laden. He leans closer to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey. Let us see where Ghannouchi takes Tunisia in this dangerous time.
Con Coughlin at The Telegraph gives his readers pause as some in the West celebrate the fall of a Tunisian dictator. The alternative may be much, much worse if Tunisians (and Algerians, and Egyptians, and even Libyans) don’t organize real democracy, not Al Qaeda in a suit.
Roger Kaplan writes the Paleoconservative opinion of the situation of revolution which occured in Tunisia. I don’t agree with it entirely, as Kaplan shows no proof that an American Ambassadorial hand was not instrumental in finally motivating the so-called Arab street to chase away tin-pot dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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