“If you decide you want to leave journalism,” Nadim Shehadi said to me over coffee at a café on Beirut’s old waterfront, “if you feel like you’ve been there and done that and would like to become a dictator, you should hire me as an advisor. I’m expensive, but I’m worth it.”
Totten ………rather naive for spending so much time in the shitholes. There was a Shia Spring decades before the Arab Spring and it crystallized in the 12ver take over in Iran. The Sunnis have had enough of the broad strata of Shia shenanigans and so you have pestulant places like Syria. Let the last Muslim standing, whether Shia or Sunni, be the true spokesman for peaceful Islam.
Sounds like Obama’s Game plan.