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The Mirage of the Arab Spring | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

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  • many U.S. policymakers and analysts were hopeful that the movements would usher in a new era for the region.
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 21 Apr 13
       
      Why only US policymakers? everyone should be hopeful!
  • would allow Washington to advance "security, stability, peace, and democracy" in the Middle East
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 21 Apr 13
       
      The US only wants things to calm down so they can poke their nose into everything again.
  • the Republican Party's 2012
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 21 Apr 13
       
      Now they say that those dictators have been menaces to global security, but when they were the leaders, they were begging them to be on their sides, and they all were
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  • platform trumpeted "the historic nature of the events of the past two years -- the Arab Spring -- that have unleashed democratic movements leading to the overthrow of dictators who have been menaces to global security for decades.
  • al Qaeda
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 21 Apr 13
       
      Waait! Al Qaeda doesn't have anything to do with the Arab Spring!!!!
  • Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 21 Apr 13
       
      Traitor for the US
  • Hosni Mubarak
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 21 Apr 13
       
      Also, a Traitor for the usa
  • Muammar al-Qaddafi
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 21 Apr 13
       
      He is the only leader who has not been a Traitor for the USA since he got in office! He has been called the crazy leader for doing that. 
  • all three countries have conducted elections that international observers deemed competitive and fair, and millions of people across the region can now freely express their political opinions...
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 21 Apr 13
       
      Elections were in tunisia and Libya right after they overthrow the leaders, but it took Egypt a little while to do so.
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The Promise of the Arab Spring | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

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  • No Gain Without Pain
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      illiasse12 on 21 Apr 13
       
      That's exactly what the Arabs are going through! They are and some were in so much pain, but They either gained something or they will.
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Arab Spring or Islamist Winter? | World Affairs Journal - 1 views

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  • will bring their respective countries out of the long Arab winter of authoritarian rule
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      illiasse12 on 12 Apr 13
       
      Arab winter..? So it should be called the Arab winter? not Arab spring?  And why should each one of them bring itself out? why shouldn't they come together and help together as a one union..as all ARABS?
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 15 Apr 13
       
      Well, as what you have told me, Arabs used to be in winter where everything is dead and when spring comes in-which refers to revolutions- Arabs will come back to life. This might be true in a way. Arabs were muted by their leaders, but they actually never died, because if they have ever died, then they wouldn't have protested against those leaders. YOLO. Arabs were just patients and they knew that revolutions might be worst...there's an arabic proverb that says: Never change your old neighbor, because the new one is going to be  worst. Arabs thought about it that way, but their patient came to an end and they started thier thing.
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 15 Apr 13
       
      ****Never change your old neighbor before you try the new one, because the new one is going to be  worst.******
  • upheavals
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      illiasse12 on 12 Apr 13
       
       Protests
  • The phrase “Arab Spring” is a misnomer
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 12 Apr 13
       
      What should it be called then?
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  • Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 12 Apr 13
       
      Why didn't they include the rest? aren't they important as well?  Yemen has overthrown their government too but they're not included? why? Algeria and Saudi Arabia had major protests too!
  • the number of genuinely liberal democracies to emerge in the Arab world is likely to be one or zero.
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      illiasse12 on 12 Apr 13
       
      That isn't true!! because all the citizens in the Arab world want to emerge into one single union. 
  • while the government of Syria
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      illiasse12 on 12 Apr 13
       
      A part of the next highlighted sentence
  • waged a murder and intimidation campaign against Lebanese journalists and elected officials.
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      illiasse12 on 12 Apr 13
       
      I'm not trying to say that it's good that they did this, but that happened for a reason. Those people were sharing wrong information and sharing just some parts of videos that give a reaaaaalllly bad picture about Syria 
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 12 Apr 13
       
      This show the bias
  • respective countries
  • Arab Spring or Islamist Winter?
  • authoritarian
  • The only things these countries have in common with each other is that they’re in turmoil and that they are Arab.
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 12 Apr 13
       
      Only thing is common is they're Arab and they're in turmoil?? Nooooo!!!!! They're also Muslims, they also speak the same language, they have common traditions, common food, they share the same continent 
  • visitors might think they’re in Greece or even in France if they didn’t know better
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      illiasse12 on 15 Apr 13
       
      if they didn't know better....this is kind of saying if you think that Tunisia is a great country, then you're stupid
  • . Egypt is an ancient and crushingly poor nation ruled, as it has been more often than not, by a military dictatorship. Libya under Muammar el-Qaddafi was an oil-rich dungeon state that had more in common with North Korea and the former Soviet Union than with its neighbors. Syria, meanwhile, unlike any place in North Africa, is a sectarian tinderbox with the potential to Lebanonize or to Iraqify almost immediately upon the overthrow of the state. 
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      illiasse12 on 15 Apr 13
       
      These stuff show that this text is old
  • visitors might think they’re in Greece or even in France if they didn’t know better
  • These nations differed dramatically from each other before the region-wide upheaval began
    • illiasse12
      illiasse12 on 15 Apr 13
       
      If they disagreed once or twice about something, then they will disagree about it even after the revolutions started!!  
  • , so it logically follows that the revolutions themselves, not to mention their conclusions and aftermaths, should also differ dramatically.
  • The Arab Spring isn’t one thing, as the post-Communist revolutions in 1989 more or less were, with local variations in only a couple of places like Romania and Yugoslavia. Here each country and revolution is its own Romania or Yugoslavia, differing significantly from each of the others.
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