How Middle East Revolutionaries Would View a Shutdown

The Takeaway

Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times and Mina al Oraibi, Washington D.C. Bureau Chief for the Arab-language newspaper Asharq al Awsat talk about the view of the U.S. government shutdown from the Arab world. As revolutions have spread throughout the Middle East this year, American politicians have had a lot to say about the importance of democracy in the region.  But today, as the U.S. government teeters on the brink of a shutdown, do these words ring hollow to Arab revolutionaries?  What would a shutdown look like to the countries fighting for democracy in the Middle East?

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