Beware the Islamists in the Wings

Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times
From the American perspective, the transition now underway in Egypt confirms John Kenneth Galbraith's famous appraisal of politics as a choice between "the disastrous and the unpalatable."What the Obama administration must dread is not the prospect of Cairo repeating the disaster that was Tehran in 1979 but St. Petersburg in 1917, when one revolution — its leadership democratic but hopelessly divided — was followed within months by a second, its leaders murderously disciplined and malevolently focused.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/02/05/beware_the_islamists_in_the_wings_250007.html

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