BACK!!! (and links to my other comments)
The Lounsbury - January 31, 2011 04:59 PM | Comments (1)
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I've been missing this but for technical reasons haven't been able to blog. Now I can. I have been making comment at Giraffe Boards; notably on Tunisia and on Egypt.
Rached Ghannouchi Returns to Tunisia (with rant on Anti-Islamist Panic)
Matthew Hogan - January 30, 2011 06:06 PM | Comments (1)
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Exiled Ennahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi was received by enthusiastic crowd when his plane landed. Given that he is somewhat of an Islamist, apparenlty his presence doesn't count as a step towards True Democracy, in the proposals of Robert Satloff, who wants the US to sponsor a new wave of Arab democratic government which would, apparently, not allow any non-secular or at least Islamist party to participate. In other words, the same thing all over again, a Ben Ali, only with multiple parties. Rant below, on anti-Islamist Panic.
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Book Review: The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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