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Urdu Section 04 Jun 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com Did Destructive Bin Laden also play a constructive role in spurring Arab Spring?
	Instead of America and the Arab world making that report their joint post-bin Laden agenda, they ignored it. Washington basically gave the Arab dictators a free pass to tighten their vise grip on their people -- as long as these Arab leaders arrested, interrogated and held the Islamist militants in their societies and eliminated them as a threat to us. As the Arab leaders choked their people that much tighter, along came Facebook, Twitter and cell phone cameras, which enabled those people to share grievances, organize rebellions, lose their fear and expose their leaders. That's the good news. The challenging news is that because of the bin Laden decade, these newly liberated Arab states are in an even deeper hole in terms of economic development, population growth and education. -- Thomas L. Friedman

Did Destructive Bin Laden also play a constructive role in spurring Arab Spring?

Instead of America and the Arab world making that report their joint post-bin Laden agenda, they ignored it. Washington basically gave the Arab dictators a free pass to tighten their vise grip on their people -- as long as these Arab leaders arrested, interrogated and held the Islamist militants in their societies and eliminated them as a threat to us. As the Arab leaders choked their people that much tighter, along came Facebook, Twitter and cell phone cameras, which enabled those people to share grievances, organize rebellions, lose their fear and expose their leaders. That's the good news. The challenging news is that because of the bin Laden decade, these newly liberated Arab states are in an even deeper hole in terms of economic development, population growth and education. --Thomas L. Friedman URL for English Article: http://newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndWest_1.aspx?ArticleID=4772 URL: http://newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamUrduSection_1.aspx?ArticleID=4773