MIDDLE EAST BOILING AGAIN
High oil and food prices seem to have provided needed match. That and Arab dictator respecting Obama. For as long as the US was advocating democratic reforms, Middle Eastern political activists stood defiantly by their dictators. Who were Bush and Condi to tell Arabs the era of Pharos should be over?
But now the Arab world can stand up to Obama's"disappointing" America and insist on getting rid of"pro American dictators."
Yes, VDH is right. It is Obama's and our 1979 or will be if Mubarack proves to be as soft as the Shah rather than hard as Ahmadinejad. As the Chinese taught dictators, it is all about the"guts" to shoot thousands of people. The world would quickly forgive if not forget.