It's not radical Islam that worries the US – it's independence by Noam Chomsky
The nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains...
'The Arab world is on fire," al-Jazeera reported last week, while throughout the region, western allies "are quickly losing their influence". The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove out a western-backed dictator, with reverberations especially in Egypt, where demonstrators overwhelmed a dictator's brutal police....
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