“....without an Arab dictator to “hold” various factions together, vulnerability expand, risks rise.”
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Well put. The Muslim world is waiting for a new Hussein and a new Khadaffi. And unless they are found, there won’t be peace in that part of the world.
Islam and “democracy” are oxymoron, Hillary. (With all your great education, you appear naive to me.)
Khadaffy saw himself as a pan-African leader. That might or might not have gone over with the Libyan Arabs, but that didn’t mean they wanted to see a great influx of black Africans into their country. Sure, they’re racist. That doesn’t mean they don’t have a legitimate grievance about their leader inviting in foreigners.
In Bahrain, the Shi’ite majority do not like the ruling Sunni minority importing more Sunnis.
Anger at population replacement was not a factor in most of the Arab countries where there was unrest, but it was big in two of them. But let’s just blur the line between that and plain old bigotry and tribal rivalry, so the peons of the West don’t think about what’s being done to them.
It would do the West good to take in Iraqi and Egyptian Christians - and send Iraqi and Egyptian Muslims home in exchange.
There was someone this morning on MSNBC saying “The question is, Is Islam compatible with Democracy... I believe it can...” It was so -sadly- funny.