Quote:People want to get rid of Draconian governments so people live peacefully and extremism can be eliminated for good.
Sorry, Ru. Didn't see that until just now.
I'd like to hope you're right but I'm not that naive. Egyptians got rid of Mubarak for the primary reason that the economy is stagnated and lots of young, educated Egyptians were working as camel jockeys for the tourists, if they were working at all. They have gotten rid of Mubarak and done exactly jack shit to alter the underlying issues. Now they have the Army running things and we all know how good armies are at defending civil liberites. You know, one of the facets of Western Democracy is that the majority understands that the minorities have rights, too. I'm not so sure that our jerkoff Neo-Con purveyors of democracy understand that very well themselves but they sure as shit do not get that people who have not grown up with the concept at all think that "majority rules" means you beat the minorities up in the streets. We've already seen that going on in Egypt between nutty muslims and nutty copts.
So, no. I'm not particularly swayed by the so-called Arab spring. My guess is that it will lead, in virtually every country, to a more Draconian government than the one it replaced. Let's re-visit the issue in say....two years?
