 "The Arab Spring is not a harbinger of democracy in the Muslim world: it is the convulsion of a dying society. After sixty years of military rule, Egypt has three-fifths of its population on the land, but still imports half its caloric consumption. It has 45% illiteracy, and massive disguised unemployment in the form of universities whose graduates are unemployable except by the government bureaucracy. To expect this basket case to produce a democracy under conditions of extreme economic stress seems delusional to me. We are watching the breakdown of dysfunctional societies: hunger and social unrest in Egypt, civil war in Syria and Yemen..." Click here to Comment  Do you have an immediate Media Request? If so, please contact our Director of Operations at:  FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Ruth S. King is a freelance writer who writes a monthly column in OUTPOST, the publication of Americans for a Safe Israel. | | |
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