 DUBAI — Arab leaders should not blame foreign intervention or lack of means for their failure to implement reforms, General Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Minister of Defence, said yesterday. “It's unacceptable to justify that failure (to bring in reforms) was due to lack of means or because of heavy foreign intervention,' Gen. Shaikh Mohammed told a conference here.
| So who do we blame exactly for this, Shaikh? I mean, besides the Joooos. |
'That implies a recipe for inactivity, laziness and excessive incapacity, and the people cannot bear more (of this),' Gen. Shaikh Mohammed asserted. He, however, hastened to add that signs of change and reforms were beginning to appear in many Arab states, and termed them as 'a chance for liberation from disappointment, frustration and despair.' |