re: #117 imp_62
I appreciate the sentiment and you may very well be correct, as to the overall threat level. But the animosity felt by the Arab street, I fear, is the result of many hundreds of years of carefully held grudges and tribal hatred. The events in Egypt make this point, I believe.
It’s not gonna be peace in our time right away. Tribal hatreds and long-held grudges also play a part.
But if someone had told you just a few years ago that one Arab country after another would rise up and peacefully protest in huge numbers against their leaders, you probably wouldn’t have believed it possible.