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For I fear this is going to be the same old story. Yes, we would like a democracy in Tunisia – but not too much democracy. Remember how we wanted Algeria to have a democracy back in the early Nineties?
Then when it looked like the Islamists might win the second round of voting, we supported its military-backed government in suspending elections and crushing the Islamists and initiating a civil war in which 150,000 died.
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ZCommunications | The brutal truth about Tunisia by Robert Fisk | ZNet Article - 0 views
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Indeed, what was Hillary Clinton doing last week as Tunisia burned? She was telling the corrupted princes of the Gulf that their job was to support sanctions against Iran, to confront the Islamic republic, to prepare for another strike against a Muslim state after the two catastrophes the United States and the UK have already inflicted in the region.
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It's the same old problem for us in the West. We mouth the word "democracy" and we are all for fair elections – providing the Arabs vote for whom we want them to vote for.
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The Hacktivist - 0 views
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some interesting snippets in this blog: it is a shame it hasn't been updated since 2006 ( a bit like my own blog!)
Drugs over Marriage: The insanity of voting for the right to marry - 0 views
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I think voting on rights is ridiculous to begin with, but when I think of the people who fought for this discrimination - organizations like NOM who are not even IN Maine... it makes my blood boil! What right does the majority have to tell another adult citizens who they can marry.
قومی سلامتی پالیسی کیلئے سول ملٹری تضادات کا خاتمہ کیسے ممکن ہو گا؟ | ہم شہری - 0 views
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’کرنا یا نہ کرنا ایسا سوال نہیں جس پر سمجھوتا کیا جا سکے، یا تو آپ کرتے ہیں یا نہیں کرتے۔‘‘ گولڈا مئیر
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۔اب بھی کسی نے یہ نہیں بتایا کہ ہم اچھے اور برے طالبان کے منحوس چکر سے نکلے ہیں یا نہیں؟
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کیا ان ظالمان کی جڑیں اس پالیسی میں نہیں ہیں جو ہم نے کئی دہائیاں قبل اپنائی تھی؟ ایک ایسی پالیسی جس میں مرکزی اہمیت ہمسایہ ممالک کو حاصل تھی۔ اب وہ وقت نہیں آ گیا کہ ایک ایسی پالیسی اپنائی جائے جس کا مرکز پاکستان ہو۔
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The magnanimity of this incidence is such that it has shaken the conscious of Pakistani nation. Writer has commented on such topic which normally is forbidden to be discussed by security establishment.The rise of terrorism in Pakistan is synonymous to a proverb "as you sow,so shall you reap" . Pakistan supported terrorist forces to destabilize other regional neighboring countries by using these forces as its proxies.Now those elements are targeting Pakistan itself. In this regard, security forces are facing the same forces which they cherished and supported.
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