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Strange. These Northern African and Middle Eastern-ish quasi-revolutions have no leaders. Western media refers to those fighting the powers-that-be as “the rebels” or “the democratic forces.” Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg is as close as anyone has gotten to putting a name on revolutionary leadership.
Where are the Maos, the Gandhis, Nerus, Castros, Che Guevaras, Pancho Villas, Titos, Chiang Kai-Sheks, Ho Chi Minhs? Where is Lawrence of Arabia?
Who is leading these people?
Leaders hide in the shadows of these odd revolutions, which outcome no one can predict. But the shadows may not even be in the African continent or Asia Minor. Libya can plunge into tribal war, for all we know. A second Afghanistan. Tunisia and Egypt could become radical Muslim countries.
We have no clue what ideals we are supporting with our mighty armies, other than the ideals of controlling natural resources and feeding the military. Anyone who still believes that elections equal democracy, also believes that Mubarak won all the past Egyptian campaigns going back four decades, and that Russia is as democratic as ancient Greece.
Hey! A thousand people were massacred in Ivory Coast in a couple of days! Where is our civilian protection? Busy taking pictures of pretty oil fields further north.
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