Springtime for Morsi: Review of 'Arab Fall' By Eric Trager

Commentary ^ | November 16, 2016 | Michael J. Totten

[C19fan]

4 shares A A Almost everyone got the Arab Spring wrong. At a casual glance, the Middle East and North Africa appeared to be sprouting political liberals like daisies at the tail end of 2010, when a nonviolent revolution in Tunisia spread to Egypt, Libya, and Syria. Tunisia’s autocratic Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fell in a matter of weeks, followed a month later by Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak. Rebellions then broke out in Libya against the tyrannical Muammar Qaddafi and in Syria against Bashar al-Assad.

[C19fan]

John Batchelor did an extensive interview with the author of the book being reviewed. The way Mr. Trager described the Muslim Brotherhood was straight out of how Lenin organized his vanguard party in Russia. One had cells, extensive ideological vetting and training, and top-down organization.

[Montaignes Cat]

A very good link, thanks for posting it and your comment about Lenin.