Arab Spring Defeated

[Minimalist]

How disorganized 'revolutions' are subverted.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/fading-h...nemployed/

Fading hope: Why the youth of the Arab Spring are still unemployed

Recent analyses of post-Arab Spring policies demonstrate that state-level efforts to address one of the root causes of the Arab Spring, youth unemployment, are at best, a mixed bag and, at worst, represent a return to a pre-Arab Spring status quo.

Failure to address this most fundamental grievance could lay the groundwork for a renewed revolt and ensuing disorder.

The last line of course is the most important.


Without fundamental change political solutions like throwing out Mubarak or Qaddafi mean absolutely nothing.  No one is going to invest in the Middle East given the rampant instability.  The oil states, which used to be rich before oil prices tanked, were more interested in building mosques and pushing their particular version of bullshit than in making substantial investments in economic enterprises.  That, or buying more shiny new weapons from us to primarily repress their own people.

I can sort of imagine two Egyptian demonstrators talking after Mubarak was ousted.  One finally says "well.... that was fun.  What do we do now?  We still don't have jobs?"

[purplepurpose]

Asians have extreme breeding rate and extreme work discipline. Those guys are voluntary slaves. EU, US who you think will help muslims themselves have sluggish economies after asia volunteered to be slaves.

[Thumpalumpacus]

How disorganized 'revolutions' are subverted.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/fading-h...nemployed/

Fading hope: Why the youth of the Arab Spring are still unemployed

Recent analyses of post-Arab Spring policies demonstrate that state-level efforts to address one of the root causes of the Arab Spring, youth unemployment, are at best, a mixed bag and, at worst, represent a return to a pre-Arab Spring status quo.

Failure to address this most fundamental grievance could lay the groundwork for a renewed revolt and ensuing disorder.

The last line of course is the most important.


Without fundamental change political solutions like throwing out Mubarak or Qaddafi mean absolutely nothing.  No one is going to invest in the Middle East given the rampant instability.  The oil states, which used to be rich before oil prices tanked, were more interested in building mosques and pushing their particular version of bullshit than in making substantial investments in economic enterprises.  That, or buying more shiny new weapons from us to primarily repress their own people.

I can sort of imagine two Egyptian demonstrators talking after Mubarak was ousted.  One finally says "well.... that was fun.  What do we do now?  We still don't have jobs?"

Between virulent Islam and autocracy, I don't blame so many of them for wanting to get to Europe or America. I'd want to GTFO too.

[Minimalist]

That would be fine except they seem to bring virulent islam with them.  Making Europe into a copy of the shithole they left is not going to solve their problem.

[brewer]

That would be fine except they seem to bring virulent islam with them.  Making Europe into a copy of the shithole they left is not going to solve their problem.

I could be completely wrong but was not this a, or one of the, moving/motivating force in Brexit?

[Minimalist]

Probably.  Although it seems hard to find anyone who admits that now.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Is FRD's dream of being the Arabs' messiah really dead?  I'll bet he's crying in his grave.  



http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/1943/43_gi...030603.GIF

[Thumpalumpacus]

That would be fine except they seem to bring virulent islam with them.  Making Europe into a copy of the shithole they left is not going to solve their problem.

Weren't the attacks of the last year homegrown?

[Minimalist]

Were they?  I thought the whole point was that there was a lot of cross-pollination going on between Syria and Europe.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'm on my phone right now at work, but I'll look it up when I get home. I don't doubt that there's some synergy going on, but iirc they were Belgian citizens by birth.