@NewYorker @wrightr Results of Arab Spring have very little to do with lack of American support for its aspirations or to "bureaucrats" 1/2
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@NewYorker@wrightr History shows how likely it is democratic revolutions end in despotism--French:Terror & Napoleon, Russia:Bolsheviks 2/2 -
@gleason_colum@NewYorker@wrightr exchange of one autocracy for another, more or less. "Ruling over" versus "governing". -
@rgerofsky@NewYorker@wrightr But often with intervening Terror, as in France and Syria - 1 more reply
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