LKY Speaks.....

An insightful read -- an excerpt from a book by LKY that's newly released....all the more impressive when he wrote this before the Muslim Brotherhood was overthrown by the Egyptian people....
Note:
1) how the Arab Spring in Egypt did not have a fairy-tale ending (useful rebuttal via same example for the oft-cited point of social media's role in the rebellion that was meant to give the people a better life)
2) the plight of women in Arab nations (and the consequent impact on their economic progress)
3) the phrasing of the OV to distance writer from that view so that the subsequent rebuttal of it won't sound contradictory:
a) One might, argue, of course, that .......
b) Observers have pointed out that ...... (see the 'small pic rebuttal' in operation here in the article)

article 1a

article 1b