{"id":317,"date":"2012-04-17T22:15:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T02:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2012-06-05T15:55:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:55:56","slug":"how-to-revolution-success-libya-failures-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewvandyke.com\/blog\/how-to-revolution-success-libya-failures-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Run a Revolution: The Success of Libya and the Failures of Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">How to Run a Revolution: The Success of Libya and the Failures of Syria<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My article this week\u00a0is at <a title=\"The Huffington Post Matthew VanDyke\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/\">The Huffington Post<\/a>. Click the text below to read it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a title=\"How to Run a Revolution The Success of Libya and the Failures of Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/how-to-run-a-revolution_b_1430945.html\">How to Run a Revolution: The Success of Libya and the Failures of Syria<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"How to Run a Revolution The Success of Libya and the Failures of Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/how-to-run-a-revolution_b_1430945.html\">&#8220;Syria is far more complicated than Libya because of sectarian divisions, but if an American Christian like myself can fight in the same Libyan rebel army as Abdel Hakim Belhaj, surely Syrians can put aside their differences long enough to overthrow Assad.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a title=\"How to Run a Revolution The Success of Libya and the Failures of Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-vandyke\/how-to-run-a-revolution_b_1430945.html\">Read more at The Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Run a Revolution: The Success of Libya and the Failures of Syria My article this week\u00a0is at The Huffington Post. 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