Is Tunisia the first domino to fall?: "'The reforms that are made on time do not weaken the ruling power, they strengthen it and reduce the potency of the revolutionary spirit'.
Former President Ben Ali would have probably benefited from this bit of wisdom from one of the fathers of the Italian union, Count Cavour. This nugget of political wisdom would have been much more helpful to the survival of Ben Ali's regime than any technical advice on security matters.
When the inertia is the only alternative to chaos and when contempt, lies, corruption, violence are they only answers to popular frustration, there is a greater risk of pushing people to despair. This despair leads to revolution when the walls of fear start falling.
Tunisia's fallen Regime has certainly encouraged the emergence of a middle class, however, it has not politically treated it as an adult.
Is Tunisia the first domino to fall? Will the Tunisian 'jasmine revolution ' spread through the Maghreb countries, and perhaps throughout the Middle East?
Yesterday, Algeria's 'civil war' during the 1990s had, by its barbarity, made a strong argument in favor of the status quo in Tunisia and in Morocco, along the line: 'And if political and social protests lead to an Algerian scenario? '"
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