(March 4, 2018 at 12:14 pm)pool the matey Wrote:(March 4, 2018 at 7:27 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The "Arab spring" did not turn out quite as hoped.
Wanna give a short version of it for everyone?
You want me to condense the last the last six years of complex middle eastern history into a snappy few sentences!
Well heres what happened.
A few arab countries rose up against their dictators, some where overthrown others not so much.
The hope was that this would lead to a new dawn for democracy, but it left power vacuums which the religious extremist sought to fill.
And of course you have the US and the Russians fighting the usual proxy wars.
In short the whole region is just one big mess.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
