It’s 1848 in the Middle East and Everyone’s Dancing in the Desert
Cross-posted at Interest of the State. In 2005, Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution blossomed. Syria was booted out of occupying its coastal neighbor and the yearning for freedom with responsive government grew, especially after the March 14 protest in Beirut evolved into a political coalition of pro-Western pacifists. In 2009, Iran erupted in its second revolution after …