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   July 28, 2011

Ajami and Hill on the Arab Spring

   Posted by Benjamin Domenech at 11:45 AM

   Peter Robinson's interview with Charles Hill and Fouad Ajami on the
   latest edition of Uncommon Knowledge is worth your viewing for a number
   of reasons, but particularly for a line of argument on the Arab Spring
   interesting, particularly around the 5 minute mark:

     Robinson: But what happens next?

     Hill: It's going to hell. Because primarily, frankly, the United
     States has stepped back from its support of freedom and democracy...
     The speech of the president on the Arab Spring, that climaxed with
     the question of the Israeli-Palestinian situation, it turned the
     whole narrative back to 1975 when there's a new narrative that
     didn't say "Death to America" or "All that matters is the
     Palestinians", it was an entirely new freedom agenda that we have
     just stepped away from.

   Hill's focus leads to a comment by Robinson on a missed opportunity for
   a genuine reset of relations with the Arab world. This is intriguing,
   and it will almost certainly be included in any general election
   campaign from the right as a criticism of Obama's response to the Arab
   Spring and the campaign in Libya. Whether it has any sticking power
   will likely depend on the continuation of world events in Egypt and the
   political success of the Muslim Brotherhood there.

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