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“Not So Obvious”

March 2, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

Thomas Friedman:

I’ve been putting together my own back-of-the-envelope guess list of what I’d call the “not-so-obvious forces” that fed [the Arab] mass revolt

Oh man, you’re going to have so much fun reading his silly list and finding out those “not-so-obvious” forces (spoiler: Obama, Google Earth, Israel, the Beijing Olympics, Salam Fayyad)