“Ditto for the Yemen “Spring” — these three countries are hell-holes now.”
It has been a while but I think Yemen was the country under discussion. There were riots going on there and I listened to the talking heads rhapsodizing about how wonderful things would be once the ruling party stepped down. Stepped down. Somebody suggested a name of who they thought would be a good leader, some professor, I think. My mind boggled at the talking head’s apparent lack of understanding about political dynamics, power bases, finances, and everything involved in setting up a government. And, what of the people rioting in the streets? Apparently that would stop and everything would go back to normal and be milk and honey once the existing government went away. It’s hard to breath when you witness such stupidity.
It is apparent that in one form or another our government, Britain’s government and the French elites all bought into this sandcastles-in-the-air sentiment.
Does no one follow Sun-Tzu (understand the land, the way etc. first)??