The account/memoir of the Egyptian revolution/counterrevolution by @ddknyt “Into The Hands of the Soldiers” is riveting b/c it is so personal and also very objective. amazon.com/Into-Hands-Sol… Not sure there is a parallel account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 that stood test of
time but I suspect this will. Already obvious thought: U.S. IC caught completely unawares. Do we not have analysts —not operatives, but analysts— in every major country producing projections of events? I’d love2 read the IC product on, say, Erdogan and Turkey right now. Are we
as unprepared there as @BarackObama and the foreign policy fantasy league at the NSC was for events in Egypt described in amazon.com/Into-Hands-Sol…?
“We set ourselves up for disappointment...Who stole the revolution? That image of the revolution was as much about Western narcissism as it was about Egypt.” @ddknyt amazon.com/Into-Hands-Sol…
