Carlos Mendo, a friend and a benchmark for international journalists, had a large U.S. political culture and used to sprinkle his conversation with an appointment, a sentence that fell naturally into his speech, not a resource for pedantic display. I remember now, at this time of historic change in the Arab world would have liked to live well, one of Thomas Jefferson who told me some months ago: "When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people who are free ".
The sentence of the third U.S. president sums up the events we are attending. When evil, ignorance and fanaticism were about to convince us that the suicide bomber was the great metaphor of the Arab world, the youth of yesterday Tunisia, Egypt today and tomorrow who knows where, have started without that we heard come a global democratic revolution still unpredictable consequences.
In less than a month, Tunisians and Egyptians have done with both commonplace paternalistic right and left condemned them, yes with the best intentions for their sake, to an eternal future of neocolonial oppression or religious. As with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the arrival of the first black president in the White House or the financial crisis, this new change of telluric proportions has taken us by surprise, leaving the thankless role of forecasters in the past.
Where are now the Euro-Mediterranean summits and all the rhetoric? Where that Alliance of Civilizations in the Turkish and Persian involving Arabs and missing cameo beyond the Arab League? How was it possible that Ben Ali and Mubarak, skilled and ruthlessly dictators and kleptocrats, were members of the Socialist International? President Obama has chosen the more political courage by supporting the transition in Egypt and probably overcoming the resistance of your team members more traditional thinking.
The White House seems to have drawn the necessary conclusions from Iran in 1979, when Khomeini took over the revolution in Algeria in 1992 when a military coup drowned in blood the victory of the Islamists of the FIS, or the Hamas electoral victory in 2006 and subsequent international isolation in Gaza.
Even to delegitimize the regime in Tehran which led the revolt against electoral fraud in June 2009. Meanwhile, the EU has simply repeated like an echo with a delay of 48 hours the words that came from Washington. Too little, too late. Not much better job of Spanish diplomacy has done so far.
Trinidad Jiménez Minister called first in Washington for a solution to the Sahara "whatever," he said later in Brussels that there is no danger of infection because Rabat in Morocco "has already begun reforms" and ended up in Israel was received by his counterpart Avigdor Lieberman, whose political base is anti-Arab racism.
On Sunday there is planned a protest march in Rabat. May soon be more than one freeze him smile. 
The sentence of the third U.S. president sums up the events we are attending. When evil, ignorance and fanaticism were about to convince us that the suicide bomber was the great metaphor of the Arab world, the youth of yesterday Tunisia, Egypt today and tomorrow who knows where, have started without that we heard come a global democratic revolution still unpredictable consequences.
In less than a month, Tunisians and Egyptians have done with both commonplace paternalistic right and left condemned them, yes with the best intentions for their sake, to an eternal future of neocolonial oppression or religious. As with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the arrival of the first black president in the White House or the financial crisis, this new change of telluric proportions has taken us by surprise, leaving the thankless role of forecasters in the past.
Where are now the Euro-Mediterranean summits and all the rhetoric? Where that Alliance of Civilizations in the Turkish and Persian involving Arabs and missing cameo beyond the Arab League? How was it possible that Ben Ali and Mubarak, skilled and ruthlessly dictators and kleptocrats, were members of the Socialist International? President Obama has chosen the more political courage by supporting the transition in Egypt and probably overcoming the resistance of your team members more traditional thinking.
The White House seems to have drawn the necessary conclusions from Iran in 1979, when Khomeini took over the revolution in Algeria in 1992 when a military coup drowned in blood the victory of the Islamists of the FIS, or the Hamas electoral victory in 2006 and subsequent international isolation in Gaza.
Even to delegitimize the regime in Tehran which led the revolt against electoral fraud in June 2009. Meanwhile, the EU has simply repeated like an echo with a delay of 48 hours the words that came from Washington. Too little, too late. Not much better job of Spanish diplomacy has done so far.
Trinidad Jiménez Minister called first in Washington for a solution to the Sahara "whatever," he said later in Brussels that there is no danger of infection because Rabat in Morocco "has already begun reforms" and ended up in Israel was received by his counterpart Avigdor Lieberman, whose political base is anti-Arab racism.
On Sunday there is planned a protest march in Rabat. May soon be more than one freeze him smile.
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