Friday, 15 July 2011

Will The Virus Of Continuity Be Stronger Than The Wind Of Revolution?

Duly Noted

Arab spring. The uprising of the Arab street has been provoked by desperation. It source has been the theft, the corruption and the inadequate allotments left for the rest of the population by the greedy “Thiefs-In-Chiefs”. The old regimes are gone but the final tally is not yet in. Nevertheless, from the outset, some of the world’s relieved optimism required that the euphoria be examined with calm rationalism. The high hopes universally expressed stood in danger of reflecting a dream rather than the potentials embedded in the actual situation on the ground.