What does it all mean? Well, once you factor in the facts that both Egypt and Libya have, relatively recently, underwent regime changes, and that Israel has warned the West for years about Muslim intentions in the Middle East, the obvious conclusion is that the Obama Administration is turning a deaf ear towards the situation. It is doing so to the peril of the United States and her citizens.
What's more, many Americans themselves, indeed many people of many nations, are not learning certain lessons which they need to understand if we are to understand world events at all. There's no doubt that Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi were tyrants. In a perfect world, they would have had to be brought down.
Yet our world is not perfect. As such, and as a direct reflection of the lack of perfection on the part of Americans and others who want tyrants out of power without regard for what happens next, when known tyrants are removed without known superior personages in a position to take their place, the people in those places are playing with fire. Yet the world, in its relative ignorance of many local political situations, applauds the changes. What does that get us?
Murdered Americans in increasingly unstable areas of the globe, that's what.
We are seeing in Libya and Egypt exactly what we ought to have expected to see given the circumstances of their revolutions. We are witnessing what must almost naturally happen in a power vacuum: the rabble begins to win in the short run, which means an increasing likelihood of worse tyrants in the long run. That is bad for the locals. It is bad for the world.
Libya and Egypt today are precisely what we should the fear the most, and in a part of the globe where stability is necessary to world security. We are watching the devil we don't see at work. We fear he will be worse than the devil we once knew. Not only for us, but for the very people he purports to lead.
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