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Tunisia's Deposed President -- Corrupt, Anti-Democratic, and One of America's Close Friends > Across the Middle East and Central Asia, U.S. allies are invariably corrupt > dictators, maintained in power by lavish patronage and the military. > > > > clip – > > Officially, the Obama administration greeted Tunisia’s “Jasmine > Revolution”—named after that country’s national flower—with open arms, > calling for free and fair elections as the United States scrambled to get > aboard the democratic bandwagon. > > However, celebration is restrained in Washington. There’s serious concern > about who will take the place of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the corrupt, > 74-year-old dictator, who, until the end, was considered an important > American ally in the war against terror. > > Assuming the Tunisian military actually agrees to hold free elections (not > at all a sure thing), will the generals really throw open the doors to all > political groups? Nationalists? Islamists? Marxists? Anti-militarists? What > forces will roil to the surface after decades of political repression? Will > they throw in their lot with America’s war against terror, or join the ranks > of those in the Middle East who increasingly see what’s going on as > America’s war against Islam? > > Full - > > < > http://www.alternet.org/story/149566/tunisia%27s_deposed_president_--_corrupt%2C_anti-democratic%2C_and_one_of_america%27s_close_friends?page=entire > > > > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
