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It looks like the regime will be staying in power, but it would seem the government has to be left that much more hollow, rendered naked, but brutal despotism is so common to the region. It was starting to look like a renaissance spring might start thawing out those governments. We recently saw some good news in the Lebanese elections, for instance, turning away from Hezbollah. But it looks like that cultural winter will be lingering for a while. Yet the ice is cracking.
It looks like the regime will be staying in power, but it would seem the government has to be left that much more hollow, rendered naked, but brutal despotism is so common to the region. It was starting to look like a renaissance spring might start thawing out those governments. We recently saw some good news in the Lebanese elections, for instance, turning away from Hezbollah. But it looks like that cultural winter will be lingering for a while. Yet the ice is cracking.
