Arab Spring

The Mel Brooks' movie The Producers is about a couple of producers trying to produce a flop for tax purposes. To make sure it fails they title it "Springtime for Hitler" and make it a musical. It could be the background music for what we are now seeing in the Middle East.

Yesterday our embassies in both Cairo and Tripoli, Libya were sacked and burned and killed four including the American ambassador to Libya. My blog on November 27, 2011 questioned whether we were seeing an Arab Spring, as the media so breathlessly reported at the time, or the start of an Arab Winter with these societies beginning their trek back to the 5th century. I think we may now have the answer.

news.yahoo.com/u-ambassador-libya-three-staff-killed-rocket-attack-091505030.html