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Topic History of: Arab Spring update Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Pattaya
Takes more than a few middle class radicals to make a revolution,you have to take the masses along.
In The Know
Just like here ! ... the Wars of the Roses, the Civil War ... after a thousand years we still haven't got it quite right.
WHY do you expect others to get it right immediately ?
hedda
of course I predicted this..but then so did most reasonably sane people but one factor stands out : the time between the sensationalising of these so-called liberations and when the great public forgets is becoming shorter..
With Iraq we still talk about the hopeless mess we created but after just 3 years Libya is basically forgotten.