middle-eastern revolutions appreciation thread

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I admit this thread is rather unnecessary, but I'm sick of the cynicism and malevolence of many. we don't know the aftermaths for these revolutions but opposing the rights of a population to liberate itself is unacceptable to me.

Currently huge peaceful demonstrations are taking place all over libya to reaffirm their demands for the dictator to step down and in support of the revolutionaries in tripoli that is still very much under qaddafi's control.
 
The peaceful demonstrations in Lybia have led to hundreds of deaths on both sides. Three world militaries are intervening according to Debkafile, trying to train the peaceful civilians with military weapons and tactics to help them fight for their lives. Hundreds of military advisers are arriving as I type this. The price of crude has skyrocketed. People are burying their brothers. Al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood are being blamed by their dictator. Death in the streets and the desert...
 
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I sure do wish colonials hadn't lost their lives standing up against the British.
 
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Deathjam said:
the guy on the right is like:

yea i'm in a film, happy times
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And the guy next to the guy on the right is cheekishly looking at the camera with a happy face. I think.

Apologies for derailing the thread a bit.
 
I certainly agree that, pain aside, these are positive moves... just this morning word started leaking out that small protests are cropping up now in North Korea. The world needs this, and America needs to be reminded that a nation is it's people; NOT it's CEOs
 
Ummm......

What Middle-Eastern revolutions?

Libya is in north Africa.

Other demonstrations have been in Egypt, Tunisia, and now Morocco.

Morocco has been peaceful so far I think, but the others not as much.
 
Dragon said:
Ummm......

What Middle-Eastern revolutions?

Libya is in north Africa.

Other demonstrations have been in Egypt, Tunisia, and now Morocco.

Morocco has been peaceful so far I think, but the others not as much.
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Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia are also experiencing unrest (if not to the same degree just yet.)
 
~jet said:
Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia are also experiencing unrest (if not to the same degree just yet.)
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Okay, I am very out of touch lately.

I expect that in most of those places, the demonstrations will be crushed.
 
Dragon said:
Okay, I am very out of touch lately.

I expect that in most of those places, the demonstrations will be crushed.
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Oddly enough, Ahmadinejad came out and said 'respect the protestors' though he was supposedly speaking to other nations (not his own.)

Ultimately, though, that's really up to the people in each of those settings... In egypt and libya, the militaries were equally as capable of crushing demonstrations as they are in Saudi or Iran (not so much Iraq, though.) and yet they simply didn't. Iran is a very modern culture pushing very hard for secular/equal rights, and the youth there are ready for change in particular. If, as it was with Egypt and Libya, enough of the military 'steps aside' or even joins with the protestors, it's over for the gub'ment as is.
 
Dragon said:
Okay, I am very out of touch lately.

I expect that in most of those places, the demonstrations will be crushed.
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Oh, and Yemen, too... I'm forgetting several, I think.
 
David Cameron the Prime Minister of Britain and the leader of the conservative party has been travelling around the middle east this week with a delegation of British 'defence' contractors selling weaponry to corrupt dictators that they can use to suppress their people:

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=24006
 
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Gaddafi so funny.
He is claiming that the Taliban are giving hallucinogenic drugs to the youth and this is the cause of their protesting.

I'm not hearing much more about Egypt. Anyone know what's going on there now?
Any updates?
 
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