There have to be hordes of young people who are so disappointed that they still have to live under despotic rulers, especially after all the high hopes they had for the Arab Spring.
Four Years on, Something of an Arab Winter
Dec 7, 2014, 10:15 AM ET
By DAN PERRY Associated Press
You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire,
Once the flames begin to catch, the wind will blow it higher.
? "Biko," Peter Gabriel
It began with a spark, four years ago: An itinerant fruit seller, despairing of life in authoritarian Tunisia, set himself on fire and burned to death. It provoked a revolution, and the flames caught swiftly across a region that had known little but despotism since the day colonial rulers went home.
The world celebrated the "Arab Spring" as evidence that the people of the Middle East, like those everywhere, yearn to be free. But time has not been kind to the optimists.
After some hiccups, Tunisia is the one bright light today, with a free presidential election planned later this month. But across the Middle East, bloodshed, chaos and dashed dreams were far more often the result.
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Four Years on, Something of an Arab Winter
Dec 7, 2014, 10:15 AM ET
By DAN PERRY Associated Press
You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire,
Once the flames begin to catch, the wind will blow it higher.
? "Biko," Peter Gabriel
It began with a spark, four years ago: An itinerant fruit seller, despairing of life in authoritarian Tunisia, set himself on fire and burned to death. It provoked a revolution, and the flames caught swiftly across a region that had known little but despotism since the day colonial rulers went home.
The world celebrated the "Arab Spring" as evidence that the people of the Middle East, like those everywhere, yearn to be free. But time has not been kind to the optimists.
After some hiccups, Tunisia is the one bright light today, with a free presidential election planned later this month. But across the Middle East, bloodshed, chaos and dashed dreams were far more often the result.
Continue reading at:
Four Years on Something of an Arab Winter - ABC News?
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