Under the headline "Fleeing Tunisians Swarm Italy," MSNBC is reporting that 5,337 have fled the womb of Arab democracy for safe haven on Lampedusa, a small Sicilian island. This is not good, not for the people of Lampedusa (pop. 6,000), not for the fleeing Tunisians, not as an example of hope for Arab democracy.
The Tunisian people should stay and build the new society they have brought into being.
