Paranoid Leaders of the Middle East

The revolutions in the MIddle East are all over the news and the uprisings are spreading like wild fire. There are analysts from every walk of life chiming in with their two cents about why it is happening now and what the future holds.

But, I want to point out something, a theme that I see flowing through almost every article I've read. It seems that all the leaders that are facing pressures from their country men have one thing in common. There are completely ignorant to the fact that it is their country men revolting against them.

Someone needs to tell Mubarak, Saleh, and Ahmadinejad that the crowds they see in the streets are crowds of Egyptians, Yemenis, and Iranians. It is not Americans and Europeans. It is not always the CIA. In all of these current situations, each of these leaders has said that they will not succumb to foreign pressures and that the U.S. should stay out of domestic issues. Now, it is a given that the U.S. has been known to do its fair share of meddling in the MIddle East. But, this time I really think that Arabs and Persians are speaking for themselves.

Maybe it is some condition where these leaders can not even fathom the idea that their "faithful followers" would ever turn against them. Maybe they really believe that they are perfect rulers, with no faults, and placed there by God. I don't know but it is interesting to see just how blind or ignorant or paranoid these leaders are.