What happened yesterday was something terrible for the two sides or more, it’s relevant how much the hate against USA was smoothly spread and turned into actions after the Arab springs wake-up and it’s no surprise how much do salafists points out USA as the enemy number one and not just because a low budget movie but as much as the politics behind all what’s happened in the middle-east especially Palestine and Iraq, in other words the cowboy is hatred since ages but those who did break into the US embassy yesterday never offered the chance to express those hidden feelings for long decades under the political turmoil and the editorship that shuts every voice even before it can utter anything that’s not allowed.
The attack on the US embassy is wrong, wrong enough to harm the Tunisian reputation, the image of Isalm worldwide and even spoil a revolution that still walking with small steps into what should be new democracy under heavy construction, 4 dead Tunisian citizen, a hundred of injuries, tens of cars smashed, but who’s responsible for all this (and probably for what’s happening)?
The clue about US diplomacy is that the shape of the Arab world has changed but not the way Americans foreign politics can handle it, in the past it was quite enough to talk in the phone with “leader” (still happening with the remaining Arab dictatorships) to calm down the game or simply resolve an international crisis but that time of easy control has gone with those leaders thrown away in an anger movement and now the voice of the people has taken the lead and is making things happen sometimes for the good sometimes for the worst, yesterday demonstration was for the worst and even one of most apocalyptic nightmares never seen.
The US diplomacy who, seems to be helping the new government to rail down the democracy path, has no other choice than to hear the people who revolutions, the same heroes that the media prized are still angry against America and it’s worst when the even did lost the left wing that has been helping for decades and switched suddenly to the right Islamic forces that were granted both the love of the people and the voters, religion was a sweet and comfortable way to many but it turns out that things will take another direction.
To conclude, the whole thing couldn’t avoided, our government was very kind with the salafists in many occasion where they were already a threat and kept them roam free as untouchables for two main reasons: precious voters and to avoid more, and that’s how they felt free to do what they did so easily under the eyes of what should be the best police in the world, another myth fades away…
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