buried away in the news - Islamic demonstrations in Tunisia against TV stations showing secular movies... many dead in Egypt as riots hit Cairo... Arab Spring was a nice catchy slogan for a simplistic headline story but real revolutions involve death and injustice as in Libya (where those voiceless, faceless innocent people who preferred the Gaddafi regime to the Bengazi thug regime are still being killed in Sirte thanks to NATO - and our tax monies).

Democracy doesn't work. Supporting loud, shouty minorities doesn't work. Disguising lust for oil as charity action doesn't work.

Can you imagine the fuss if 25 people had been killed during the September riots here - and if it had been a religious riot (with Muslims or Catholics killed)?

It would never have happened under Mubarak.

Clock up more deaths to Arab Spring - so acclaimed by media ("great story") and brain dead politicians ("let's bomb Libya").

Reality is always an inconvieniance over looked by politicians!

JK2006 wrote:
It would never have happened under Mubarak.

... the death toll would have been higher
(and you would never have heard about it !)

In The Know wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
It would never have happened under Mubarak.

... the death toll would have been higher
(and you would never have heard about it !)

If we never heard about it, how do we know it never happened?

Pumpkinhead wrote:
If we never heard about it, how do we know it never happened?

You wait for the mass graves to be found ... like the ones currently being found all over Libya !