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Post by abacus9900 on Feb 18, 2011 16:03:54 GMT 1
I gather protesters in Bahrain are calling for the replacement of the Royal family. Could the events in Egypt have sparked a democracy movement throughout the rest of the Arab world? Who might be next - Saudi Arabia?
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 18, 2011 17:36:21 GMT 1
Negotiation via riot. It's an old means of exercising influence over government.
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Post by abacus9900 on Feb 18, 2011 17:42:24 GMT 1
Negotiation via riot. It's an old means of exercising influence over government. Sometimes violent revolution is necessary. |
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Post by Progenitor A on Feb 18, 2011 18:03:27 GMT 1
Bahrain is key to the US ME policy. It has a large Naval base there and it will surely not allow Bahrain to fall under Islamic rule (there is a lot of sympathy for Iran there). Just as in Algiers it will ensure that inconvenient democracy does not succeed.
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Post by abacus9900 on Feb 18, 2011 19:21:42 GMT 1
Bahrain is key to the US ME policy. It has a large Naval base there and it will surely not allow Bahrain to fall under Islamic rule (there is a lot of sympathy for Iran there). Just as in Algiers it will ensure that inconvenient democracy does not succeed. I tend to agree nay. |
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Post by rsmith7 on Feb 18, 2011 23:55:22 GMT 1
Negotiation via riot. It's an old means of exercising influence over government. Sometimes violent revolution is necessary. When? |
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Post by Progenitor A on Feb 19, 2011 9:54:35 GMT 1
Sometimes violent revolution is necessary. When? When dictatorial and oppressive regimes are unbending surely? |
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Post by rsmith7 on Feb 19, 2011 10:09:47 GMT 1
I agree but I think abacus and the left footers considers our government oppressive and unbending.
The Guardian certainly think so.
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Post by Progenitor A on Feb 19, 2011 10:24:55 GMT 1
I agree but I think abacus and the left footers considers our government oppressive and unbending. The Guardian certainly think so. I think that the only people that take the Guardian's political views seriously (it is an excellent newspaper otherwise) are Stalinist yearning for the golden past Surprisngly (to me) libya is alsoin upoar with 74 demonstrators killed See how we such up to these arab regimes that are hated by their own people |
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Post by abacus9900 on Feb 19, 2011 13:49:37 GMT 1
I agree but I think abacus and the left footers considers our government oppressive and unbending. The Guardian certainly think so. Go live in somewhere like Bahrain for a while and then tell me what a dictatorial regime is like. |
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Post by rsmith7 on Feb 19, 2011 16:30:41 GMT 1
I live in Scotland so I'm very qualified to comment.
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Post by abacus9900 on Feb 19, 2011 16:55:06 GMT 1
I live in Scotland so I'm very qualified to comment. Scotland? Wonderful place to live! |
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Post by rsmith7 on Feb 19, 2011 19:37:09 GMT 1
It used to be.
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