The "Tunisian Virus"

The problem with the "Tunisian Virus" is that the countries involved do not have an established culture of democracy and rule of law.  Thus, while we may see idealistic adherents to democracy leading the way in overthrowing the dictatorships which have ruled them for decades, the people who have the organization and infrastructure in place to take over the movement are usually the ones most antithetical to democracy.

History, as usual, repeats itself because we so rarely learn from it.  As we saw with the overthrow of the Duma by the Bolsheviks in Russia, we now see the overthrow of the idealistic democrats in Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood.  We have no idea who the rebels are in Libya, but now we find Al Qaeda fighters among their number.  As with the rise of Adolph Hitler and his seizure of the Sudetenland, the tide overtaking the Middle East is becoming one of those watershed events in world history which we will look back upon as the beginning of  the horror to come.

Unfortunately, we in the West are infected by the "Multiculturalism Virus," which has rendered us unable to deal with the reality unfolding before our eyes.  So eager are we to avoid the label of 'racist,' we fail to understand that we stand in the Dar al-Harb, while our adversary's plan to expand Dar al-Islam to the rest of the world slowly enfolds us.  We watch as the self-loathing Left combines with radical Islam to bring down the West, all the while daring us to call them out.  As Colonel Dan points out, Vladimir Putin now looks to take advantage of the chaos descending upon the Middle East as $150-a-barrel oil increases Russia's intake of wealth and significantly hobbles the West's economic recovery.  George Soros, the man who crashed Great Britain's currency to make a profit, financially supports many of the organizations on the Left assisting in fomenting the terror taking hold.


"May you live in interesting times."  An ancient Chinese curse which today seems to describe perfectly what is happening globally.  Our task is to understand the motivations behind what is taking place and who benefits.  Cui bono--who benefits?  As you can imagine, it isn't us.