Arab Spring

8 Replies to “Arab Spring”

1. Wow, that was close!
   The taxi thing I mean…wow.

2. “Last year a temporary government was elected to draft a new constitution. (Elections for a full-term government should be held later this year.) Ennahda, the Islamist party, won 42 percent of the vote and has more seats in parliament than any other.”
   Tunisia is according to Totten,the most Europeanised Country in Africa, as well as the most inherently peaceful,but still, the Islamists can garner 42% of the popular vote.
   While the Tunisians may hold them at bay, it doesn’t give much hope for the less sophisticated Countries in the region that are under very much pressure from Islamists.
   I believe Islamists realize they have a rare window of opportunity to take whatever they want, due to the weakening of American resolve in the Middle East.
   This Spring may be even more interesting than the last one.

3. Tunisia used to be a really nice place to visit or work, although you will never get the Arab out of the Arab culture.
   I remember catching a taxi from a hotel in Tunis to the airport one morning, it’s was a standard $15.00 short cab ride one way. Standing in the lobby with 3 other businessmen all individually waiting for a Taxi booking, one pulls up and everyone scrambled out and claimed it was theirs.
   It turned out that one Taxi showed up for all 4 bookings and the cabbie insisted we all cram in together; everyone was pissed because it was small and dirty. Immediately after barely squeezing luggage into the trunk, I pulled the cabby aside out of earshot and told him he trying to make $60.00 on a fifteen dollar ride, and that I’d only give him $5.00 for the inconvenience, or he could return to collect me for $15.00 – yup no problem, Arab culture.

4. I was travelling alone, when I was 16, and a guy tried to lure me away from he Montreal train station. I was almost out the door, when something just made me stop in my tracks. I may have been a hick from the sticks, but something just gave me a chill. Did I mention I was 16? For a so-called world traveler, this chap seems awfully naive.

5. The phrase “Arab Spring” is another stupidity from the Yanks. They seem to think that by wishing really really really hard they can turn Islam into something it isn’t.

6. Yes John, and it seems the older they get, the more they believe in miracles. John McCain is one of the loudest voices, singing the praises of the Arab Spring.

7. john Lewis >
   “The phrase “Arab Spring” is another stupidity from the Yanks”.
   I wouldn’t lay the Arab Spring on the “Yanks”. It began in Liberal Progressive Europe, most probably based in the high North African immigrant/ University culture and ended with European foreign resource interests (EU).
   The American roll was to provide EU/UN muscle through NATO when Obamba’s masters cracked their whip. Like a good boy he told the American people to piss off by circumventing Congress to attack Libya and provide logistical support in Egypt & Tunisia.
   Whether the “phrase Arab Spring” popped out of the American Progressive Government Media complex is another matter, but I wouldn’t carte blanche state that as coming from the “Yanks”.

8. I wonder if we can vote twice and with no ID like in Obamba’s America?
   Would that be ok with all you left wing weirdoes in this election? Didn’t think so.
   Early polls open tomorrow.