David Kirkpatrick, the Cairo bureau chief for The Times, wrote an article from Libya on Monday that posed the key question, not only about Libya but about all the new revolutions brewing in the Arab world: The question has hovered over the Libyan uprising from the moment the first tank commander defected to join his cousins protesting in the streets of Benghazi: Is the battle for Libya the clash of a brutal dictator against a democratic opposition, or is it fundamentally a tribal civil war?This is the question because there are two kinds of states in the Middle East: “real...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/23/tribal_power_or_people_power_in_mideast_252515.html
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