Name a single ME country that has a "representative government" except Egypt...
How can a "democratically elected representative government" come out of Syria with the complete chaos and fighting...
Plus it seems Mr. Assad isn't about to gave up his power and control...
I guess Brennan must be thinking of all those "moderate" ISIS fighters that will GOTV /S
“I guess Brennan must be thinking of all those “moderate” ISIS fighters that will GOTV /S”
C’mon..Mr Brennan should:
1. categorically define & articulate what he means by ‘moderates’. IOW, who exactly are these ‘moderates’?
2. His estimation (quantity & quality) of those ‘moderates’ remaining after Assad is removed.
Egypt was very lucky to have a el-Sisi rise up when he did (more an execption). Even so it was after much killing there. And, the situation in Egypt is still very fragile.
It appears the way Obama has been dealing with the M.E. & North Africa since 2011 is not so much about having a ‘representative govt’, but more about destabilizing, throwing a whole lot up in the air, then watching from mostly afar how things land & eventually shape up.
Israel has a representative government. For that matter, so does Turkey.
Post-Saddam Iraq had a representative government, but the Shiite majority nearly immediately started to oppress the Sunni minority, and more and more because a proxy of Shiite Iran.
Jordan has a representative government as well, but the monarch tells them what they can and can’t have.
Egypt had one under Mubarek, then there was the Morsi fiasco (he didn’t win, but the weakened “revolutionary” party that had ruled since Farouk was overthrown was pressured to say that he did), followed by his removal. The al-Sisi gov’t ran the country until an election put a popular imprimatur on his usurpation of power.