DOMINO
We have collectively tolerated systematic abuse of our people
While the partying has just begun in Egypt, and the descendants of Pharaoh begin a Spring Break of the Great Sphinx proportions, the rest of the Arab world remains quietly sober. Token price cuts in food, and other staples, and transparently foolish surprise raises for government employees, and random ransacking of parliaments, the latest insulting attempt to bribe their people by the last remnants of Arab despotism around the Persian Gulf
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IDEAS
A butterfly flaps its wings and suddenly regimes fall
Perhaps the pundits and the policymakers should have checked the writing on the wall that the endurance of Egyptians and other struggling regional populations under the obvious economic burdens, abuses and unpopular domestic and foreign policies could not go on forever. That foreign imposed structures and policies are inherently destabilizing. But that would be expecting too much from these acting jocks and their computer screens
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