tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post1453279949020391021..comments2024-03-20T01:06:12.181-04:00Comments on MEI Editor's Blog: Remembering BourguibaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-48451111974156577292013-04-18T19:11:59.703-04:002013-04-18T19:11:59.703-04:00He was the Arab leader I admired the most as a gra...He was the Arab leader I admired the most as a graduate university student studying the Middle East. The nearest the Arabs had to a genuinely transformational revolutionary, like Mustafa Kemal in Turkey. By the time I saw Bourguiba in the flesh, as Charge at the U.S. Embassy in the early 1980s, he had clearly stayed for too long. While he could show flashes of brilliance for a few minutes, most of the time he was not in touch with reality. How sad. David Macknoreply@blogger.com