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So - Who’s The Good Guy Again?

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/lostroadtopeace/item/so_-_whos_the_good_guy_again_20120701

“The conventional wisdom goes that the Arab Spring has been a good thing” read an item intro on PRI’s “The World” last week, “Just look at Egypt: a dictator is out and a new leader has just been democratically elected”. A salute of that sort to a nascent democracy is natural and understandable, as intuitive as bundling Egyptian democracy with the prospects of tolerance, progress and peace in Egypt. It’s not always so. Democracy and the evolutionary ideas we associate with it have been “un-bundled” before - In the West, and certainly in the rest of the world.

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