Am I the only one worried about WHO is trying to overthrow these mid-east governments?

[HEyHEY]

Just cause you're trying to overthrow a government it doesn't mean you're some amazing, human rights crusader who's gonna give everyone free cake and orgasms the day after the takeover. Frankly, it's a bit worrisome at this point.

[Hannah Bell]

1. i always wonder who is pushing behind the scenes; who do you suspect?

[HEyHEY]

3. I don't. That's the thing. I have no idea, but I worry it could be hardliners.

[Hannah Bell]

4. well, if it is, that would be poetic justice. but you know "hardliners" have sponsors as well

sometimes.

including, as history demonstrates, the west.

[tekisui]

2. Find out more here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x289767

[leftstreet]

5. That's a great link

Thanks!

I knew about the 6 April Youth and Twitter/Facebook, but not much about the other groups.

Thanks for posting that

[clyrc]

6. You aren't the only one

I keep meaning to talk to my Egyptian friend about this, to see what she thinks. She has often complained that Egypt has gotten more and more conservative over the years, and she wasn't talking about the government.

[RagAss]

7. Ya know, sometimes people just get pissed !

[Codeine]

8. Dude, I misread a bit and was completely baffled about why you thought

the World Health Organization was overthrowing countries. :dunce:

[Kaleva]

9. There's concern about a military takeover in Egypt in reaction to the protests

[moondust]

10. Iran had a revolution in 1979. n/t

[Catherina]

11. People all over the world are tired of barely scraping by for the enrichment of a small elite.

Right now it's the people overthrowing entrenched tyrants. Soon they're going to be overthrowing entrenched systems. The time to worry is later, when hardliner greedy people try to claw their way to leadership but pissed off people get my support when overthrowing tyrants so they can redesign things, as they see fit, in the lands where they live.


It's their battle, their gamble. The status quo the West was so enamored with was unbearable. I'm glad to see the people fighting it.

[hlthe2b]

12. Yes... having lived as a teen in Iran, worked throughout the ME.

I certainly am. The outcome in Iran is not distant history for me, having had a very nervous several months waiting to get my parents back to the US before the Shah's deposure.

Further, I was in Egypt after the Cairo earthquake in 1992, when the government did very little and the Muslim Brotherhood (with Saudi $$) were all over the poor neighborhoods giving aid and assistance. The MB is positioned as are Islamic factions in several of these countries, to take over in a power vacuum.

Mubarek is essentially a dictator (sorry, Biden, but he is). But, he is not the worst that could happen. So, yes, while I have to support the cause of freedom, I am damned worried. Revolutions have a better chance of a good outcome, when there is already leadership in the wings ready to go. Whether that will be the case, even where an alternative has been identified (as in Egypt), remains to be seen.