In egypt they started doingit. They got an elected government and then the same people, many but not all, the same numbers of people who had gone to the streets the first time went back into the streets and asked the army to come in but this time they werent asking the army to take away an undemocratic government,they were asking the army to take away a government that had been elected so the army did and the accomplishment was the end of democracy for at least a generation. Thats an autonomous act of a collective people, i argue, against democracy. To say we tried it, it didnt work, we dont like it. And thats another thing, we think democracy is that people put themselves in power and the people want to stay in power but thats not always true. People can put themselves in power and take themselves out of powerand thats what happens , i know thats a controversial claim but im curious to hear your thoughts about the mismatch question. Why it was that people didnt talk about democracy in
Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is to kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a country success or failure of the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region, and if so, how . In this regard the editors of aid money, Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis, and their cocontributors, have given given us a gift. They identify seven factors that affect stability or not and examine what they mean and the role they play. The pillars that they identify our legitimacy, islam, arab ideology, the militaries, education, economy, and gove
Of more bushfires could increase later this week. Plus the stars come out for the Golden Globes as hollywoods best and brightest kick the red carpet with really how the will is strong chilltown surprise the biggest not its. Coming to you im. U. S. President donald trump is valid to impose severe sanctions on iraq if it expands u. S. Troops deployed in the country thats as tensions increase over the targeted killing of irans top general by a us drone strike in bandar on friday in tehran irans leaders of the Funeral Services for general Qassam Silliman he and others killed in the strike. Weeping over the remains of irans top military commander. Green leader ayatollah ali how money visibly moved as he leads funeral prayers for his former close ally. Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered to pay their respects to general kasim salim money killed in a u. S. Drone strike in iraq on friday. His assassination is considered a declaration of war by many iranians. Speaking at her fathers fune
Potential sanctions because it seems that he is wholly committed to making this this strategy happen and it also seems like its got some powerful backus and making this happen so so i would imagine that there will be some sanctions put in place but but whether they will actually hold to peace operations im not at all convinced at and what about the impact on ice 11 have been conflicting reports as to whether prisoners have escaped or not techie denying the scale of it what would you make of that situation. So we know that with groups like isis of thrived in conditions of uncertainty when theres been serious Economic Issues when theres been serious threats to life such as those conditions that was sitting in Northern Syria right now and if we look at what happened in iraq when they were formed they emerged and they really gave strength after a large scale prison break so theres a lot of parallels here i think with what happened in iraq when the book at all but that he was able to forge
In the u. S. The family of a black woman killed in her own home by a white Police Officer has accused the officer of murder 28 year old at iana jefferson was killed in her house in fort worth in texas on saturday while looking after her nephew. When her. 2 new footage from the officers body camera shows the moment of the shooting Police Say Officers saw someone near a window and one of them drew his weapon after perceiving a threat a neighborhood called police when they saw her front door was open. Intrude on their fears one of the countrys main exports is threatened by factors including Climate Change sudan is the worlds main producer of gum arabic used in many products from soft drinks to cosmetics but pharma say theyre worried that income could dry up in the morgan reports from an obeyed which is south of the capital khartoum. These fields of acacia trees have been tended by any means to a mans family for generations for 30 years hes been planting harvesting and tapping them for the