Has it really
been only two years since the Arab
Spring? It seems like only yesterday that the White House was patting
itself on the back over the successful use of “soft power” to transform the
Arab world: something that the evil Bush and his neo-con banditti would never
have contemplated.
Now the
project lies in ruins. Egypt is in the first stages of a civil war as the
Egyptian military attempts to eradicate the country of the Muslim Brotherhood
thugs Barack Obama had championed as latter day Jeffersonian democrats. Libya is reduced to an
amalgam of bandit chieftains and al Qaeda factions
vying for supremacy. The lasts domino, Bashar al-Assad, has stubbornly
refused to fall and actually shows signs of coming out of the current crisis at
least as strong as he was in 2011.
Now the other
shoe is dropping. The first domino, Tunisia, is on the verge of descending into
violence, too.
When a popular
uprising swept the sclerotic government of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
out of office it was quickly replaced by the only organized opposition: the
Islamists of the Ennahda
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