Egypt uprising could spark people’s movement in Afghanistan
“When once a nation begins to think, it is impossible to stop it,” Voltaire prophetically scribed more than a decade before the 1789 Storming of the Bastille. Not unlike French revolutionaries over 200 years ago, the people of Egypt have awoken after years of demoralization, making one wonder if and when a similar epic rousing shall be seen in Afghanistan, where the government has degraded and preyed upon its citizenry to an even greater extent than Mubarak has the Egyptians. The parallels are so striking it prompted Dexter Filkins to ask in a New Yorker piece: “After Tahrir Square, do we really think the Afghans won’t notice?” Of course, the Afghans have already noticed that, like Egypt,…
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