Posted on 05/18/2012 7:38:32 AM PDT by C19fan
These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom. In the Arab Spring, we have seen the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism. The idea that Arab peoples are somehow content with oppression has been discredited forever.
Yet we have also seen instability, uncertainty and the revenge of brutal rulers. The collapse of an old order can unleash resentments and power struggles that a new order is not yet prepared to handle.
Some in both parties in Washington look at the risks inherent in democratic changeparticularly in the Middle East and North Africaand find the dangers too great. America, they argue, should be content with supporting the flawed leaders they know in the name of stability.
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Exactly and spot on.
Obama is an enemy to Israel and the United States. Has been from the get go. A few of us were trying to shout it forom the rooftops four years ago...but fwer too many were caught up in the manufactured “moment”.
Hopefully, it is not too late and they have witnessed enough ruin and felt enough pain to turn from their dillusion.
“I always resented the lefts meme about W being dumb. Im afraid to say in retrospect they may have had a point.”
It took one op ed almost 3 YEARS since that clown has been out of office for you to come to that conclusion? Were you paying attention when he was in power? Plenty of clues to his stupidity then.
GWB understood nothing, else he wouldn’t have really screwed up our thinking with “Islam is a religion of peace.”
Jacobinism unrestrained by reality.
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