27-07-2012, 02:10 AM
Freidman, Greenwald, Madson, I've read them all, and it is not them I am interested in, - as Eleanor said, "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss evens, small minds discuss people."
I am interested in the dynamics of the Arab revolutions that have knocked out three dictator and threaten another in Syria, one who has no justification for his power, his right to own an entire country, the right to pass on those rights to his son, as his father did, and the idea that the continuing Arab Spring revolts will continue the domino effect through four dictators and - who's next? Bahrain? Saudi Arabia, Iran? Even China is scared.
The revolution is currently in Syria, where Assad is on the ropes, but other than Russia, other nations are being kept on the sidelines, although the opposition is now being armed and supported by Quatar, Saudi Arabia and al Qaeda, all of whom seek a stake in the post-Assad Sryia, but since the revolution is not an Islamic Jahid or Communist, but a democratic revolution seeking a free and open society, they will have to co-op the original stimulus for the revolt to take it over.
But those seemingly successful democratic revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are now, however slowly establishing their style of political life, the emergence of any one radical group as the new tyranny seems less likely, though certainly the major threat.
The ideas I am interested in discussing are the roles of youth and women in the revolutions, as they have sparked it and have played major roles in every country, and the idea that the USA has broken with its previous long standing policy of supporting friendly dictators and now supports the democratic revolutions in most countries - Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria, but apparently not in Bahrain, Yeman and Saudi Arabia.
It is also interesting and worth studying the role of Al Quada in the revolution, and the emergence of the new, liberal Islamists who seek an open, secular, democratic society, and not an orthodox, conservative religions one based Muslim law.
The situation in Syria will also have a major impact on neighboring countries - Turkey, Iran, Jordan and Israel especially, and the future of Hamas and Hezbolla in Palestine hinges in the balance, as both bailed out of Syria and abandoned Assad in February, when things started getting hot. They claim to be freedom fighting terrorists, but they're like liberals who leave the room when the fight begins.
I don't look at the Arab Spring revolts as East-vs-West or imperialist-nationalist or even religious, but as young vs. old, and the young people aren't armed with guns and tanks and artillery, but cell phones and twitters.
BK
Revolutionary Program: Syria - Assad Next to Fall
I am interested in the dynamics of the Arab revolutions that have knocked out three dictator and threaten another in Syria, one who has no justification for his power, his right to own an entire country, the right to pass on those rights to his son, as his father did, and the idea that the continuing Arab Spring revolts will continue the domino effect through four dictators and - who's next? Bahrain? Saudi Arabia, Iran? Even China is scared.
The revolution is currently in Syria, where Assad is on the ropes, but other than Russia, other nations are being kept on the sidelines, although the opposition is now being armed and supported by Quatar, Saudi Arabia and al Qaeda, all of whom seek a stake in the post-Assad Sryia, but since the revolution is not an Islamic Jahid or Communist, but a democratic revolution seeking a free and open society, they will have to co-op the original stimulus for the revolt to take it over.
But those seemingly successful democratic revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya are now, however slowly establishing their style of political life, the emergence of any one radical group as the new tyranny seems less likely, though certainly the major threat.
The ideas I am interested in discussing are the roles of youth and women in the revolutions, as they have sparked it and have played major roles in every country, and the idea that the USA has broken with its previous long standing policy of supporting friendly dictators and now supports the democratic revolutions in most countries - Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria, but apparently not in Bahrain, Yeman and Saudi Arabia.
It is also interesting and worth studying the role of Al Quada in the revolution, and the emergence of the new, liberal Islamists who seek an open, secular, democratic society, and not an orthodox, conservative religions one based Muslim law.
The situation in Syria will also have a major impact on neighboring countries - Turkey, Iran, Jordan and Israel especially, and the future of Hamas and Hezbolla in Palestine hinges in the balance, as both bailed out of Syria and abandoned Assad in February, when things started getting hot. They claim to be freedom fighting terrorists, but they're like liberals who leave the room when the fight begins.
I don't look at the Arab Spring revolts as East-vs-West or imperialist-nationalist or even religious, but as young vs. old, and the young people aren't armed with guns and tanks and artillery, but cell phones and twitters.
BK
Revolutionary Program: Syria - Assad Next to Fall