The Middle East Awakens

For the past few weeks the world has witnessed the awaking power of dissent in the Middle East, long known for despotic rulers, who only enrich themselves at the expense of their people. The question remains and still is left unanswered is how the world will respond to this changing dynamic?

The United States had been completely taken by surprise, and the Obama administration's position on these traumatic events keeps changing by the day, depending who was giving the brief and whether they had a different position. To the rest of the world it seemed the U.S. was clueless on what approach to take.

The events in Egypt reached a somewhat peaceful conclusion with the military taking control and President Hosni Mubarak forced from power. The real lingering question is what will the future bring in the coming months, and how does this change the dynamics in the Middle East?

Right now demonstrations have spread to other Middle Eastern nations such as Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and now Iran. Iran experienced its own democratic revolution in 2009, but the U.S. was slow to respond to the brutal repression by the Iranian regime.

Let's hope the U.S. has a coherent strategy for the Middle East, because right now its current strategy is a chaotic mess.

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