Obama’s ‘tear down this wall’ moment
There will be time for handwringing later. When the current turmoil in the Middle East settles down, there will be apt opportunity for examining the seeds of the crisis and answering the same question faced by old Soviet hands in the wake of the Berlin Wall collapse: Why did many not see it coming?
To foreign policy pundits who have long seen a bleak future for U.S. interests in the Arab street's demand for democracy, the genie has been let out of the bottle. The challenge is now to salvage these interests as decades of U.S. investment in regional stagnation unravels before our eyes.… Seguir leyendo »