Stephen P. Cohen & Bruce Riedel

with Bruce Riedel and Stephen P. Cohen
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Stephen P. Cohen of the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development & Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institute

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    1. robdverity  02/01/2011 03:18 PM Report

      Tunisia and Egypt are about economics. If Egyptians had jobs Mubarak would have his. Gotta love the irony. The NY tribe (a la Blankfein, Rubin, et al) in their egregious greed capsized the world ec. to the detriment of the ME. Poetic justice?

    2. ShalomFreedman  02/01/2011 02:02 PM Report

      I am surprised at both Cohen and Reidel who do not mention the likely outcome of the deposing of Mubarrak. It is not a more 'democratic Egypt' but rather a take- over of Egypt by the same kind of Islamist force now ruling in Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, and Gaza.

    3. REMant  02/01/2011 12:22 PM Report

      I've hoped Americans would learn to leave the rest of the world alone, because if there's one thing that should be obvious about situations such as these, those who interfere are damned if they do and damned if they don't. We don't ever seem to really have any principles either. We just want to keep on the good side of whatever results. I'm sure our govt hopes to simply replace Mubarak with another similar, and, if not, to be able to manipulate ElBaradei. No one, incidentally, seems to know exactly why he entered the lists in the first place either, altho I don't mean to disparage him in the slightest. I even mentioned the possibility when he was here. Europe's kings united against the French revolutionaries, because they were after all in the monarchy business, and I don't imagine it will be any different now that we are governed by legislatures and conglomerates, when push comes to shove. But I'm afraid this is likely to end up like Pakistan. It will be but justice, at least for the developed world, if not, of course for the people its policies have beggared. (I see, BTW, that Roubini and Schechter have now joined this chorus: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/01/201113113211680738.html)

      The I-told-you-so's being heard from former Bush officials and the globalizers is sheer hypocrisy. They've never cared about real freedom in the slightest. Besides, it is one thing to advocate it, and quite another to expect it to emerge fully grown. In 1789, fresh from putting the Constitution in its final form, Gouverneur Morris watched similar events unfold on the streets of Paris and confided to his diary that, unlike the Americans, they were not ready for self-government. In the English Civil War, they had not been. And it did not happen in Germany after WWI, nor in Russia. Neocons and liberals alike are awful children about stuff like this.