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2017-08-14 The Grand Turk

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Posted by Fred 2017-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Arab Spring

#1 Spring is followed by summer. This is the ME, not temperate Europe. Summer is the dying time.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-14 02:56|| 2017-08-14 02:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Trump has quit arming the anti-Assad Syrian rebels who were supported in the last admin. during the Dark Spring. Obama and his puppeteer's Dark Spring plan to move the world to the left failed. That is a good thing. It was a bit bloody and chaotic along the way as it usually is.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-14 08:24|| 2017-08-14 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 The underlying assumption that democracy is natural and exportable has been buried. However, Neocons and Lefties never reevaluate their failures as much as double down on the concept of 'if only the right people were in charge'. Man is hierarchical, territorial, and tribal. Democracy is antithetical to that and requires just the right conditions and protections to exist against that kind of human behavior. Why would you ever think you could export something you are already in the process of losing at home?

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-14 08:47|| 2017-08-14 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Why would you ever think you could export something you are already in the process of losing at home?

Hear, hear.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-14 09:19|| 2017-08-14 09:19|| Front Page Top

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