Posted on 10/04/2012 2:09:43 AM PDT by SMGFan
Given that there have been no reminders, it seems that we’re supposed to forget.
Twenty months ago, the entire TV news media, individually and as a whole, reported a sensational, world-changing story: the Arabic-Islamic world suddenly and spectacularly had been overwhelmed by a wave of Western-style democracy.
That’s right; religious, political and social freedom was breaking out all over the Middle East. In Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain and, most significantly, Egypt. And soon this revolution would conquer the forces of evil ruling Syria.
For one week, our TVs reported that the bells of freedom were ringing, from Tunis to Cairo. One small problem: The story was bogus; it was based on nothing more than a notion, almost from the start.
It was obvious after Day 1 of the “Arab Spring” demonstrations in Cairo, when men and women in Western garb disappeared, replaced by women in Muslim garb and by wild-eyed men given to demonstrating their commitment to Allah by slitting their throats — and yours.
Wait a second. What happened to all those pro-democracy demonstrators? Did they just bus in for the day?
If anything had changed about this part of the world, it had changed for the worse. And it still has. The enlightened of that world and the non-radical Muslims of that region are more unwelcome, targeted and endangered than before!
Yet, for an entire week, reports from network “experts” on the scene, recently returned from the region, and from anchors and analysts in US studios claimed that these were the moments when we could all join hands and sway to the beat of international moderation and tolerance.
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The New World Order will come out of WWIII and global economic crash.
How much more war is necessary to have WWIII? I think that global economic crash was set in motion when the 'big tent' Republicans retreated to a TARP. Look at our debt, and liberals intend to tax US into a backwater third world pit.
How much more war is necessary to have WWIII?
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