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Tunisia’s coup; Another Obama foreign policy failure
The Duran: Episode 1049
The Guardian view on Tunisia’s coup: a spring that turns to winter
The Guardian view on Tunisia’s coup: a spring that turns to winter | Editorial
Editorial: In 2011 a repressive, authoritarian government collapsed because it proved unable to meet people’s demands. Why would its return solve anything?
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It is not that Arabs are unable to appreciate ‘democracy’, however that may be defined, but truly representative government in any Arab state had actually functions would challenge the legitimacy of the leadership in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states – all of which are dictatorships, dressed up of course as royal rule. Syria in fact, despite the obsessive hatred for the ‘regime’, as they constantly call it, is the nearest any Arab state will get to representative government as locally it does have representative democracy and Assad does have genuine popular support. Egypt tried democracy but the ‘Brotherhood’ which… Read more »
The major advantage to a democracy is that if a lame leader is elected, they can be replaced in the next election.
The fundamental problem though, is that when you have a lame voting public that voted in the first lame leader, chances are not good that you’ll get anything but another lame leader to replace them.
America, you can take your bow now.
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