Who Will Be The Next To Fall? -- Ralph Peters
Egypt's message for the Arab world - and beyond
In 1982, Muslims in the city of Hama rose up against the Syrian dictatorship. “President” Hafez al-Assad, the father of today’s Syrian strongman, sent in his military. At least 25,000 civilians were massacred. The media saw little, governments said less, and the regime in Damascus marched on.
No ruler in the Middle East could pull that off today and keep it quiet. The stunning changes in digital connectivity — the democratization of the news — have changed the rules for good: Dictators can still butcher their own people, but other governments are forced by popular opinion to react. In words first uttered in Chicago in 1968, “The whole world’s watching.”
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Nagorno-Karabakh and the inertia of the West -- Amanda Paul
Arab people's revolt bad for al-Qaeda -- Michael Moutot, News24
India And Pakistan: Two years and still counting -- Siddharth Varadarajan, the Hindu
Why the Arab Democracy Wave is Unlikely to Reach Syria — Yet -- Andrew Lee Butters, Time Magazine
Syria Is Not Egypt, but Might It One Day Be Tunisia? -- Aryn Baker, Time Magazine
Terrorism meets xenophobia in Russia -- Charles King and Rajan Menon, L.A. Times
Drop the Case Against Assange -- Tim Wu, Foreign Policy
Downloading the Uprising: Can technology's tools liberate those living under political repression? -- Joshua Yaffa, Wall Street Journal
Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials On Egypt
How Egypt can build lasting democracy in a post-Mubarak world -- Larry Diamond, Washington Post
China, Twitter and 20-Year-Olds vs. the Pyramids -- Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The 40 Percent Nation -- David Brooks, New York Times
Wallflowers at the Revolution -- Frank Rich, New York Times
Analyst: Concessions Not Enough to End Egyptian Crisis -- Voice of America
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is a force the world can no longer afford to ignore -- Ian Black
ANALYSIS-U.S. looks 'over horizon' on Egypt crisis -- Reuters
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