Tunisian history did not begin in December 2010. And Mohamed Bouazizi did not set himself on fire so Barack Obama could be re-elected. His death was an emblem of the despair he had to endure under the Ben Ali regime. The world knew after reading WikiLeaks publications that Ben Ali and his government had long enjoyed the indifference, if not the support, of the United States in full knowledge of its excesses and its crimes.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Tunisian history did not begin in December 2010. And Mohamed Bouazizi did not set himself on fire so Barack Obama could be re-elected. His death was an emblem of the despair he had to endure under the Ben Ali regime. The world knew after reading WikiLeaks publications that Ben Ali and his government had long enjoyed the indifference, if not the support, of the United States in full knowledge of its excesses and its crimes." in the context of "Julian Assange, address to United Nations, Date: 2012-09-26, quoted in Gosztola, Kevin (2012-09-26), "Assange Addresses UN Members, Lambasts Obama’s UN Address for Rewriting History", Firedoglake retrieved: 2012-09-27" to mean that wisdom is timeless.