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President Obama's Arab Spring was all just a mirage in the desert. There never was an Arab Spring.
With Obama's failed regime change in Egypt, we are seeing another failed Obama regime change unfolding in Syria.
The Egyptian Pyramid Scheme
September 16, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield:
>" Deserts are funny things. A big wide open space in which nothing moves can play tricks on the mind. Spend enough time looking at a desert and you will see things moving in it because your mind needs to believe that there is life in it. Look hard enough and you will see democracy, progress and change.
But when you close your eyes and open them again, you will see that there is only a desert. And that there only ever was a desert.
Everything else was a mirage.
Egypt has gone back to what it was before the Arab Spring. It is now once again a country ruled by the military and bureaucratic institutions that are the legacy of British colonialism. Mubarak will not return to power again, but there are plenty of other military men to squat on top of a bankrupt oligarchy that lives on foreign aid and pride.
The mirage of Tahrir Square, the fireworks, fires and social media protesters brandishing smartphones and throwing down with riot police, is fading away. There will be more riots and fires and rapes. But that false sense of history being made will never return.
The truth about the Arab Spring is that it never existed. The term was coined by Marc Lynch, a George Washington University professor, who had spent years urging engagement with Hamas and championing the role of the Muslim Brotherhood as a “firewall” against Al-Qaeda “radicalism.”..."<
Continue.-> The Egyptian Pyramid Scheme | FrontPage Magazine
With Obama's failed regime change in Egypt, we are seeing another failed Obama regime change unfolding in Syria.
The Egyptian Pyramid Scheme
September 16, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield:
>" Deserts are funny things. A big wide open space in which nothing moves can play tricks on the mind. Spend enough time looking at a desert and you will see things moving in it because your mind needs to believe that there is life in it. Look hard enough and you will see democracy, progress and change.
But when you close your eyes and open them again, you will see that there is only a desert. And that there only ever was a desert.
Everything else was a mirage.
Egypt has gone back to what it was before the Arab Spring. It is now once again a country ruled by the military and bureaucratic institutions that are the legacy of British colonialism. Mubarak will not return to power again, but there are plenty of other military men to squat on top of a bankrupt oligarchy that lives on foreign aid and pride.
The mirage of Tahrir Square, the fireworks, fires and social media protesters brandishing smartphones and throwing down with riot police, is fading away. There will be more riots and fires and rapes. But that false sense of history being made will never return.
The truth about the Arab Spring is that it never existed. The term was coined by Marc Lynch, a George Washington University professor, who had spent years urging engagement with Hamas and championing the role of the Muslim Brotherhood as a “firewall” against Al-Qaeda “radicalism.”..."<
Continue.-> The Egyptian Pyramid Scheme | FrontPage Magazine