William A. Jacobson
Legal Insurrection
8/2/2011
Roger Cohen of The NY Times and other journalists were smitten with the Egyptian revolution, and denounced warnings of what lurked below the surface:
(February 3, 2011) Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran 1979, a revolution for freedom that installs the Islamists. But this is not 1979, and Egypt’s Facebook-adept youth are not lining up behind the Muslim Brotherhood, itself scarcely a band of fanatics.
The Obama administration was not better, placing its bet on urban professionals like the Google Guy and minimizing the dangers from Islamists and others.
Some of us warned early on that the students and Western-oriented professional class didn’t stand a chance against the Islamists and others on the anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli Arab Street, but we were dismissed as Israeli-firsters and beholden to the Israel Lobby.
But, once again, there is more evidence that the starry-eyed dreamers and believers in the Arab Spring were wrong…
The article continues at Legal Insurrection.
At Althouse, “Mobs of ordinary Egyptians joined with soldiers to drive pro-democracy protesters from their encampment in Tahrir Square showing how far the uprising’s early heroes have fallen in the eyes of the public.”
