Egypt and the Crisis of Arab Warming

Ibrahim Iman - (Keydmedia) - The Mubarak regime has been shrunk to the size of what many Tea Party Republicans in the U.S. would deem as "small government." Thanks to the youth of Egypt, who orchestrated mass protests across the country, demanding an end to the repressive reign in more than a quarter century.

Article Keydmedia Online
1 February 2011

Egypt is in turmoil. The big government is weakened by a week long demonstrations, including its mighty institutions with the exception of the military.

The Arab world needs more of these grassroots movement from within, downsizing every repressive regime to a manageable scale, and with an eventual transition to democracy. But that is too ambitious of a dream to ascertain now. Despite the courage expressed by the youth, the regime still dangle on the reign of power.

However, Western leaders are thinking about an alternative strategy to manage the eighty million Egyptians who are undoubtedly as angry as the Tea Party. But that is too little, too late now.

What culminated in the events of Tunisia and now Egypt are apparently symptoms of what I call "The Arab Warming", a phenomena that is more dangerous than "Global Warming." The Arab Warming has been ignored for too long. The democratic aspirations of millions of people were reduced to an unnecessary question of security dilemma.

Ask any Middle East policy specialist in the West; they will inform you readily that any efforts to democratize the region benefits only to the Islamist, followed with an outdated example of the event in Algeria during early of 1990