'Arab Spring' of democracy owes thanks to George Bush
I agree with Miranda Devine that 'Arab Spring' of democracy owes thanks to George Bush. What is happening in the Middle East is that pro-US and pro-Israeli governments are putting on the veneer of respectability (ie democracy). The not-so-pro governments are trying to discern what they need to do to survive.
As we know in Australia, democracy is really the choice between two unpalatable alternatives. Egypt going to extend this to three making them more democratic than either the USA or Australia.
In Lebanon, the bourgeois are in favour of getting a pro-Israeli government while the proletariat are in favour of anchluss with Syria. This is class war played out in the streets. As long as the capitalists control the media, the Lebanese bourgeois will win the propaganda war. If either the Lebanese or Syrian bourgeois win this struggle, the Lebanese proletariat will still lose (although they may lose less under the Syrian bourgeois).
US intervention in the Middle East indicates that Israel has failed in its mission to police the region. If the US can no longer on Israel to protect US interests in the region, what need has the US for Israel?
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It is a good thing that you are turning to computing as a grad course of study rather than political science...you are silly when you talk about politics. Knee jerk and filled with cliches of the long-tossed away marists nonsense.
Please enlighten me on what you consider to be silly.
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