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And elsewhere bloodshed

Submitted by Paul Walter on February 24, 2011 - 2:17pm.

And elsewhere bloodshed continues also, Ghaddafi is in strife also. But the west still fails to grasp that the masses in these regions have a legitimate right to seek improvements in their lot, regardless of whether this upsets America and its allies or not.

Bloodshed

Submitted by Alan Curran on February 24, 2011 - 10:59pm.

Paul Walter , Of course there is bloodshed all over the Arab countries, this is what they do best.

Killing their own people in cold blood and blaming the US and the Israelis for the mess they are in.

I am sure that those splendid chaps in Hamas and Hezbollah are just waiting to use the Egyptian army to attack Israeli. I am going to enjoy that except the war will only last 3 days.

Mubarak got away with $millions and Ghaddafi will get away with $billions.

Are we right to be semi-optimistic?

Submitted by Jay Somasundaram on February 20, 2011 - 5:46am.

What is Egypt for? What are we for?

Excellent summary

Submitted by Paul Walter on February 26, 2011 - 8:45pm.

Jay Somasundaram, it is an excellent summary in the link provided and it correctly identifies the left's inability, so far, to resolve tensions between development and the problems that come with it, often because of wedge politics from the right. But the oppositions mentioned need not be oppositional when the concept of "sustainable" development is added.

But the corporates and power elites have battled even this rational concept, out of an irritable resentment that doing things properly might impinge on the profits imperative some how. These people are seldom as conscious of the rights of others as of their own self-bestowed "rights".

rip

Submitted by Paul Walter on February 17, 2011 - 5:36pm.

Contrast this to our "ignorance is bliss" state.

The US has been revealed in its real nakedness by the linked events of Wikileaks and the subsequent popular uprisings in a number of Arab countries, yet America, against the lessons of its own history, have adopted a "King George the Third" approach to the rightful aspirations of hundreds of milions of people.

And this not from blinkered reactionaries like Rumsfeldt, but the supposedly rational quarter involving Obama and Clinton. To watch them squirming away in embarrassment as they enact and try to justify the worst of US "policy" and "governance", has been an adventure and eyeopener in itself.

What a sad end to the two century American democratic experiment!