Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution

[Michael Alan]

One thing I cant consume here, is long texts. But especially links. I have
never in my life clicked a link.  Okay, Juan Cole.  Does she have great
tits?

Ley me ask a question.  Does anyone here know abput chlorropphill?

On Monday, June 30, 2014, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Remember the "Arab Spring?"  Now it's just another failed revolution,
> right?  Well, Juan Cole says we should take the long view.
>
> http://www.juancole.com/2014/06/youth-movements-wrought.html
>
> Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by the massive crowds of
> youths mobilizing in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand an end to Egypt’s
> dreary police state.  We stared in horror as, at one point, the Interior
> Ministry mobilized camel drivers to attack the demonstrators.  We watched
> transfixed as the protests spread from one part of Egypt to another and
> then from country to country across the region.  Before it was over, four
> presidents-for-life would be toppled and others besieged in their palaces.
>
> Some 42 months later, in most of the Middle East and North Africa, the
> bright hopes for more personal liberties and an end to political and
> economic stagnation championed by those young people have been dashed.
> Instead, a number of Arab countries have seen counter-revolutions, while
> others are engulfed in internecine conflicts and civil wars, creating Mad
> Max-like scenes of post-apocalyptic horror.  *But keep one thing in mind:
> the rebellions of the past three years were led by Arab millennials,
> twentysomethings who have decades left to come into their own.  Don’t count
> them out yet.  They have only begun the work of transforming the region.*
>
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