(July 3, 2016 at 11:40 am)Minimalist Wrote: How disorganized 'revolutions' are subverted.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/fading-h...nemployed/
Quote:Fading hope: Why the youth of the Arab Spring are still unemployed
Quote: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.
