“The problem with popular revolutions is they always get co-opted by despots that are often worse than the one deposed. Be careful what you wish for lest that wish be granted, people.”
Amen!
That’s what I’m afraid is happening.
“As much as I respect Mr. Daniel Pipe’s opinions, he mustve smoked wacky weed this time. Sorry Daniel, your hopes fly contrary to logic.”
I like him, too...but he has put himself out there for public ridicule.
I think I’ll mock him, now. ;o)
I received the Daniel Pipe's newsletter and read his rosy optimism with a sour expression.We look at a mapthe North of Africa is ablazeis this not the work of Iran?
Oh but shi'ite and sunni never mixor so we are continually told.
Transcending the merely sectarian is overarching human dynamic of power.
Those with power are being undercut and overthrown; their realms will go under new management.
Hussein the 44th czar of the former republic of America is clumsy in adapting to these events, but consistent patterns surface predictably.
He supports the rioters in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemenbut not in Iran.
He deplores the murder of the demonstrators in Tripoli and Cairo but not Tehran and Tiananmen--
As Donald Trump pointed out, Hussein gave China a five-star dinnerand I would add, after he bowed to the leaders of China and Saudi--
The Saudi prince paid for Hussein's Harvard; and Hillary (SecState) has a body person who is her Saudi agent of influence.
The current prairie fire on the Mediterranean rim is not benign, does not bode well for America and her ally Israel.
While Pipes' hopes may be buoyed by the lack of overt appearance of Islamist force at this time, the history of all revolution as well as all Islamic governance, suggests fascist sharia to follow.
We need Sarah Palin and John Bolton and David Petraeus, not a taqiya-talking KGB Active Measures bionic imam.