Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution

[Mark Thibodeau]

Do we really all collectively have to suffer this idiot's idiocy?

YOPJ

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Michael Alan <michaelalancc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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