Personally, I’m not so much baffled as I am outraged.
Via IPT:
Journalist Michael Totten has an intriguing report from Tunisia, where he finds rampant frustration toward the United States for its embrace of the new Islamist-controlled government there.
After dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in the first Arab Spring uprising last year, the Islamist Ennahda party won control of the Tunisian assembly, which chose party member Hamadi Jebali to be prime minister in November.
Washington has courted the new government, baffling secularists in Tunisia, Totten writes. That’s because Ennahda is viewed as a moderate party in American media and government, an assessment with which Tunisians on the street strongly disagree. “No to America, no to Qatar, the people of Tunisia will always be free” marchers chanted Tuesday during rallies to commemorate Tunisian independence.