Quote of the Day: Tunisia and the ‘Arab Soul’

Quote of the Day: Tunisia and the ‘Arab Soul’

Quote of the Day: Tunisia and the ‘Arab Soul’

The remedy to the Arab world broken by "poverty, unemployment and general recession" is twenty more revolutions.

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"The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession.… The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen entered an unprecedented state of anger and frustration."

—Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, speaking at an Arab summit this week. Moussa has the diagnosis right, but he didn’t suggest the remedy, namely, twenty more revolutions.

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