Posted on 04/22/2011 6:49:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
An Egyptian protester waved his national flag as tens of thousands gathered for a demonstration at Cairo's Tahrir Square on April 8, 2011.
SIDI BOU ZID, Tunisia—Ali Bouazizi, who owns a grocery story at the center of this poor, remote North African town, was ecstatic when protests toppled his nation's dictator in January. These days, he sounds deflated.
"This uprising was for what?" he asked in a recent interview. In Tunisia, he said, "the people who have money and the heritage of the old regime aren't giving up control."
Mr. Bouazizi is no ordinary bystander to the revolution. He played a key role in igniting the unrest that has spread through much of the Arab world. In December, his cousin doused himself in gasoline and burned himself to death. Mr. Bouazizi posted on Facebook a video of the protest that followed, then alerted satellite-news channel Al Jazeera. Unrest spread rapidly from there.
But not much has gone the way many original protesters hoped. All across the region, the exuberant "Arab Spring" has morphed into a season of deadly crackdowns, sectarian strife and dimming prospects for democracy—at least in the form many original protesters envisioned.
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And Casablanca is really pretty close by, too.
I guess the golden rule is hard to break, those who have the gold rule.
The idiots that think mooslums want democracy are dumber than a coal bucket.
A real shocker.
These frickin’ fools actually think this is about establishing democracy?
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Libya and Egypt have always had Mob Rule..
Sidi Bou Zid was a major battle in WWII on 10Feb43. Rommel pummeled the 3rd Battalion 168th RCT that was trying to stop the Panzer tanks into the Faid Pass. The 1st Armored Division of II Corps, directed by Gen. Lloyd Fredendall, was pushed by Rommel for nine days through the Kasserine Pass.
My neighbor was marooned on Djebel Lessouda hill while the Germans hit GIs with tank fire. My neighbor got off the hill and somehow got through the lines. The casualties and the destroyed equipment was huge. He hiked half a day until an officer dumped him off at a mess hall. After that, he jumped a 6-foot fence to get to a road and was picked up by a general who told John to talk to this reporter in the Jeep. The reporter was Ernie Pyle.
My neighbor is the last survivor of the 168th.
They need a new set of rulers they have control over so says the post shadow government of the United States.
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