Thursday, September 13, 2012

What the Arab Spring Really Was

The Good and the Nasty

By Patrick Cockburn

CounterPunch

"....There are still plenty of people in Western armies and intelligence services who feel nostalgia for the old way of doing things, when they dealt with a compliant Egyptian army and did not have to worry about democratically elected Muslim Brothers or others more extreme. The Arab Spring was never a collective vote in favour of Western states, but a series of real revolutions that have other surprises, both good and nasty, in store."

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