This is not about a video. I'm not even sure it's about America. I think Forbes Magazine has it right: It's about decades of living dictatorships with highly filtered information charged with deflecting anger about corruption and lack of opportunity.
The people in these countries are upset. For their entire lives, their media has told them that Isreal and the U.S. are to blame for what's wrong in the world. And things haven't changed fast enough in the Arab Spring. Extremists are, as usual, finding a way to take advantage of that.
Yesterday, Press Secretary Jay Carney maintained that the wave of violence in the Middle East was all about a low-budget, little-seen YouTube video and not about the Obama Administration's policy in the Middle East and throughout the Arab World. Reports are coming out, however, that the Obama Administration isn't delusional enough to believe their own rhetoric.
The New York Times reported that the White House is "preparing for a long siege of Arab unrest."
The unrest has suddenly become Mr. Obama’s most serious foreign policy crisis of the election season, and analysts say it is calling...
Sharia Law
Clashing cultures
Keeping women under control
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