Fareed Zakaria Considers What the Mideast Protests Reveal [View all]

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Putin warns that the Arab world could descend into chaos.

"I think it is overblown. I think what you have here is one of these periodic crises that take place. You will remember there have been these around the Koran burning and around the Danish cartoons, and they're all signs of a fundamental problem within Arab societies, a fundamental lack of tolerance and an extremism. But they have never really descended "into chaos" because, just remember, you're talking about a few hundred people, here and there. There may be a few places where it's worse and remember the crucial difference in the place like Libya is that the government is entirely on the side of the United States. It's trying to battle these extremists."



http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/14/qa-what-the-mideast-protests-reveal/?hpt=hp_t2