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Politics move quickly and opinions evolve. There's a good chance I no longer hold some of the opinions expressed in the post below
—Mustapha
The Wisdom Of Assad
April 19, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui
President Bashar Assad to the Wall Street Journal, last January:
If you did not see the need for reform before [the unrest] in Egypt and in Tunisia, it is too late to do any reform. […] if you do it just because of what happened (demonstrations) then it is going to be a reaction, not an action; and as long as what you are doing is a reaction you are going to fail.
Somewhere in Saudi Arabia, the Tunisian ex-president is laughing and sharing this with his friends..