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Re: 'Arab Spring' dreams dying amid violence

David Risselada — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:37:40 -0000

Agreed, Obama = narcicist

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SPITX206 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:03:35 -0000

And you know that the US CIA was behind this how?

Re: 'Arab Spring' dreams dying amid violence

Tom Karvonen — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:43:21 -0000

Typical Left-Winger Response...no matter what goes wrong in the world, the West in general and the US in particular is to blame...either out of arrogance, incompetence, or malignancy

Re: 'Arab Spring' dreams dying amid violence

Rey10 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:11:52 -0000

Is anyone surprised? Is Mr. Obama surprised? The results were obvious from the beginning. Who gained from encouraging these revolts? If and when the dust settles will the radical Muslim organizations control all of the Middle East, except Israel, assuming Mr. Obama abides by our treaties? Based on his own words regarding Congress he may simply issue an executive order declaring the treaties null and void.

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Hobbes Wayne — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:02:56 -0000

Why isn't the media asking the right questions? You cannot hope for democracy, you have to want it. From the beginning, there has been NO framework for democracy in the Middle East, there has only been Islam. That is what is so absolutely stupid about the administration and especially, this State Department. Obama hopes for a transition and Hillary presents a Western view of democracy to Eastern European nations? Saul Alinsky doesn't work in the Middle East. You cannot manage the social conscience of a people that have been ruled by religion. Religion is all they had against the tyrants and now it is their only security. How can you have two sets of laws, one that dictates the will of god and one that dictates the will of people. They will run into conflict and the will of god will always win out until they develop a framework that accommodates the will of god while ruling by the will of people. The State Department has made an Eastern European framework proposal to an Islamic Revolution. For a woman having her husband spend so much time in the Middle East, she knows NOTHING about the culture. She is truly a school teacher in a State Department suit and not anyway as bright as her predecessors.

Re: 'Arab Spring' dreams dying amid violence

newsjunki — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:15:10 -0000

This Arab Spring was a farce to begin with as it was deliberately implemented with the help of the Obama administration to oust Mubarak and create chaos all over the Middle East. Obama is convinced that diplomacy with the Muslim Brotherhood will quell terrorism and give him a place in history as being "thee One" who brought peace to the Middle East. This is why some say he is throwing Israel under the bus to appease these Muslims which he has a special affinity for considering his father was one.

Re: 'Arab Spring' dreams dying amid violence

newsel — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:55:09 -0000

"Iran, Bahrain and Syria turned to brutal repression to put down anti-government activists, with no intervention by the West." Just as a start Rowan, you can take Bahrain of off this list. Nothing brutal or repressive about what transpired for something that Iran instigated and which the Bahrain Government had to handle. Go check it it out for yourself.

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crewdog1976 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:47:57 -0000

These "revolts" are backed my the Muslim Brotherhood. There will not be Democracy if the rebels win in these countries.

There are a myriad or reasons our Dear Leader wants to give all of the oil producing countries to the Muslims, the biggest one being the Muslim Brotherhood once stated they would stop all oil they controlled from reaching the US, thus ensuring the total collapse of what is left of the only free country in the world.

Re: 'Arab Spring' dreams dying amid violence

wimroffel — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:04:54 -0000

Tunisia is most successful because it stayed closest to the origin: a moral appeal against corruption. By now the Arab Spring has lost much of its moral appeal and become just another exercise in regime change and the regimes have reacted correspondingly.

Washington and Europe have contributed to this perversion by introducing their own desires for regime change (Libya and Syria) or regime preservation (Bahrain). A moral appeal depends on persuasion and as such involves a lot of talk. Instead the West has consistently refused talks with Gadaffi and efforts at talks by the Syrian regime were - most likely deliberately - sabotaged by the visit of US ambassador Ford to Hama.

In fact things went wrong before already when - instead of advocating reform in Egypt - Obama pushed for the removal of Mubarak. The damage can be seen even today when the protesters ask for persecution of Mubarak instead of real reforms.

Yemen is a special case. It is a country were for many years the most primitive elements - mountain tribes from the north - have been able to dominate. Now their Machiavellian system of divide and rule is falling apart. I think the West should refuse to be played once more by Saleh whose relationship with Al Qaeda resembles that of the Pakistan regime.

Re: 'Arab Spring' dreams dying amid violence

collardgreens1 — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:12:21 -0000

You mean all that work by the CIA to foment revolts--no matter by which groups of revolutionaries--in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, and all that US-taxpayer money spent by Obama to drag us into the civil war in Libya that he has lied to us about so consistently, were all for nought?