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After U.S. Airstrikes In Syria: If The Arab Spring Wasn’t Dead Already, It Is Now -- Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
For well over a year now, the Arab Spring has struggled on life support, doomed to die with barely a whimper. Instead, it ended definitively with the bang of U.S. airstrikes in Syria, coordinated with five of the Arab world's most authoritarian states. The long winter of a protracted war with the Islamic State and affiliated jihadists now seems here to stay.
There was a time when the White House genuinely had hope that people power and pro-democracy uprisings could reshape the Middle East. In a famous speech in May 2011, President Obama likened the dramatic self-immolation of a fruit seller in Tunisia, which triggered protests that toppled a long-ruling autocrat, to the defiance of Rosa Parks and the agitators of the Boston Tea Party.
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My Comment: Civil wars in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq. Conflict and unrest in Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia. Political turmoil in the Gulf States. So yes .... the Arab Spring is definitely dead.
Arabs cling to despots or Islam..both not helpful
ReplyDeleteThe arab spring has become the arab winter...
ReplyDeleteObama did HIS PART in killing the Arab Spring.
ReplyDeleteIf Obama had supported the Persian Spring in 2009 and had not supported the MB, it would have been a much better world.
Dante is going to have to create a new circle.