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(whereas most Islamist exiles were confined to places like Iran and Syria), seemed not to understand how democracy works: people like Iyad Allawi and Ahmed Chalabi had an air of entitlement, assuming that people would vote for them merely because they were modern, progressive and famous. They didn't bother to cr
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pposition activists in meetings at the White House and US state department. Yet such movements have led us astray before, as when politicians such as Ahmed Chalabi misled the US about realities in Iraq. In truth, Mr Assad's regime is much less likely to fall than that of Muammer Gaddafi: there have been no high-
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United States
LocationCountry located primarily in North America

Saddam Hussein
PersonIraqi president, army officer and Baathist politician (1937–2006)

Vietnam
LocationCountry in Southeast Asia

Tehran
LocationCapital city of Iran

Recep Tayyip Erdogan
PersonPresident of Turkey since 2014

Barack Obama
PersonPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017

Hosni Mubarak
PersonPresident of Egypt from 1981 to 2011

Lebanon
LocationCountry in West Asia

Tunisia
LocationCountry in North Africa

Yemen
LocationCountry in West Asia

North Africa
LocationNorthernmost region of the African continent

Fatah
OrganizationPalestinian nationalist political party

Tripoli
LocationCapital city of Libya

Bashar al-Assad
PersonPresident of Syria from 2000 to 2024

al-Qaeda
OrganizationSalafi jihadist organization founded in 1988

David Ignatius
PersonAmerican journalist and novelist

Muammar Gaddafi
PersonLeader of Libya from 1969 to 2011

the Muslim Brotherhood
Organization
Stratfor
OrganizationAmerican geopolitical intelligence platform and publisher

Ankara
LocationCapital of Turkey