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Is The Arab Spring Now A Winter Of Discontent?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Libya, Egypt, Syria. Are they in a better or worse position as a result of the Arab Spring?
The West backed these popular revolutions, China and Russia seemed to be against them. Who showed the best judgement? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Wow if you can answer this question you should be in politics.
It's always going to be a hard one to answer given the not only political but religious aspects involved, as well as financial.
Honestly I have no idea. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The real insight will come from within, do the people of these countries feel their lives are richer/safer/more secure...
I am not sure they will."
I'm with you on this one. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yeah, its funny how the West's judgement gets such bad press.
Is that because we have freedom of speech, so the dissenting voices actually get heard?
Who would you trust to save *your* arse? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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These 'revolutions' need time to settle. All the interventions from west or east will only make it take longer for things to settle down. Whichever way they go, people will suffer, there will be bloodshed, there will be a humanitarian crisis. All we should be doing is offering help to the 'ordinary people of the region, with no regard to what 'side' they appear to be supporting. No military aid to any factions, but we must be ready to protect our own interests. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Libya, Egypt, Syria. Are they in a better or worse position as a result of the Arab Spring?
The West backed these popular revolutions, China and Russia seemed to be against them. Who showed the best judgement? "
The west activitly encouraged them by supplying weapons n military training.
The child off all this is called isis.
It's all just a way off weakening the middle east, so Israel can do as it likes.
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We have a long history of interfering with the Middle East.
We created Israel without much thought of the Palestinians.
We supported the Shah of Iran until we didn't.
We supported the Iranian revolution until we didn't.
We supported Gaddafi until we didn't.
We supported Mubarak until we didn't.
We supported Assad until we didn't.
A lot of problems Iraq is now facing is because of the British Mandate that didn't take into account the ethnic divisions of the region and so ever since we've had warring factions. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We have a long history of interfering with the Middle East.
We created Israel without much thought of the Palestinians.
We supported the Shah of Iran until we didn't.
We supported the Iranian revolution until we didn't.
We supported Gaddafi until we didn't.
We supported Mubarak until we didn't.
We supported Assad until we didn't.
A lot of problems Iraq is now facing is because of the British Mandate that didn't take into account the ethnic divisions of the region and so ever since we've had warring factions. "
are you blaming the UK or just the West in general? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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are you blaming the UK or just the West in general?
Well the British Mandate was UK.
The others are positions taken by the UK along with other Western countries. "
Don't you like The UK? |
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are you blaming the UK or just the West in general?
Well the British Mandate was UK.
The others are positions taken by the UK along with other Western countries.
Don't you like The UK?"
Of course I do, that doesn't mean I'm not able to be objective about the historical influence of my own country.
I don't try to revise history because it might be uncomfortable for me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Would you rather NATO had done nothing during the genocide of Muslims in the Serbia?
I'm glad we were able to intervene there. "
Seems like some have a short memory doesn't it?
why do we intervene in middle east problems these days? is it to stop Israel turning the area into glass? probably. Tricky to drill for oil through glass. Do i want petrol in my car? yep. would i rather The UK shared the foreign policy of Russia or China, or Sweden?! nope. Can we stop the Arabs hating each other and us? As long as they remain partly educated,sexist and insular. no. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Libya, Egypt, Syria. Are they in a better or worse position as a result of the Arab Spring?
The West backed these popular revolutions, China and Russia seemed to be against them. Who showed the best judgement? "
Its not the case though is it if you look at it clinically. The original regimes were oppressive people taken off the streets by the special police people abused and worse so it wasn't good before. In an ideal world everyone would have a say but in lawless areas the power of the fist has a large say sadly. You create a vacuum and not dictate who takes over its a free for all.  |
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Seems like some have a short memory doesn't it?
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No, I said we have a long history of interfering with the Middle East. I didn't say it was good or bad. Rather than asking me to clarify you just made the assumption that I thought all intervention was bad.
I was merely pointing out that the consequences of our actions sometimes create unfavourable outcomes.
Luckily in the case of the Balkans that wasn't the case. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Seems like some have a short memory doesn't it?
No, I said we have a long history of interfering with the Middle East. I didn't say it was good or bad. Rather than asking me to clarify you just made the assumption that I thought all intervention was bad.
I was merely pointing out that the consequences of our actions sometimes create unfavourable outcomes.
Luckily in the case of the Balkans that wasn't the case. "
not you, Muslims. |
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