10-31-2018, 10:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-31-2018, 10:27 PM by Bob Butler 54.)
(10-29-2018, 06:30 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: In 2011, the raucous Arab uprisings triggered a fifth phase. It began after unprecedented displays of peaceful civil disobedience in the world’s most volatile region. Within a single year, a rippling wave of uprisings opened political space for Muslim movements that had struggled for decades—in one case, almost a century—just to get in the door." See the article for its manifold expression in our times.They keep trying, things do improve, baby steps are taken, and I can applaud the efforts from afar. Yet I keep seeing kings, religious leaders, tribal leaders and political strongmen leading the most influential states in the Middle East. It is another case where you hope things will improve, but history shows very slow if eventually successful progress occurs when changing from autocratic to democratic cultures.
I wish it weren't so slow, but...
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.