 AP Photo The worst message we can send right now to Middle Easterners is that their future is all bound up in what we do. It is not. The Arab-Muslim world has rarely been more complicated and more in need of radical new approaches by us - and them. TAGGED: Syria, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Mitt Romney, 2012, Middle EastRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| The elections that followed the Arab uprisings elevated Islamists out of decades of repression and into the region’s most powerful posts. Here in Egypt, a former prisoner became president. But to Salafists, adherents of a... more ›› |
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