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Post by warrior1972 on Feb 2, 2013 8:11:50 GMT -8
Will Pakistan experience an Arab Spring? The question has been on many minds since revolution swept across the Middle East and North Africa in 2011 – and especially since a major anti-government rally took place in Islamabad this month. It's easy to understand why. Pakistan, like the Arab Spring nations, boasts a young and mobile communications savvy population. Its masses are victims of the same indignities that incited revolt in the Middle East: corruption, oppression, and injustice. However, the similarities end there. Let’s stop talking about a revolution in Pakistan, because it’s not going to happen. globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/30/the-myth-of-an-arab-spring-in-pakistan/?hpt=hp_bn2 |
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Post by prospero on Feb 2, 2013 8:42:23 GMT -8
It is too easy to jump to conclusions when from a distance it somehow seems reasonable. Yet it is an entirely different argument that logic might rule the insane asylum that is Pakistan.
The Young Turks have been dead a long time, and weren't they the first Arab/ Ottoman Spring, and now they seem to be backsliding.
Pakistan is a country that for every reason should take that little step.
A step that could transport them to the future, but for the well ingrained poison of the mind that is fundamentalist Islam.
I question the premise that there has ever been such a thing as The Arab Spring. It so far appears that they, Egypt, Libya, and Syria are simply throwing off their political masters in favor of philosophical ones.
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Post by dustdevil28 on Feb 3, 2013 12:31:14 GMT -8
Will Pakistan experience an Arab Spring? The question has been on many minds since revolution swept across the Middle East and North Africa in 2011 – and especially since a major anti-government rally took place in Islamabad this month. It's easy to understand why. Pakistan, like the Arab Spring nations, boasts a young and mobile communications savvy population. Its masses are victims of the same indignities that incited revolt in the Middle East: corruption, oppression, and injustice. However, the similarities end there. Let’s stop talking about a revolution in Pakistan, because it’s not going to happen. globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/30/the-myth-of-an-arab-spring-in-pakistan/?hpt=hp_bn2Wouldn't there need to be arabs for this to be considered an arab spring? Last I checked there weren't many there. Aside from that point, in other arab spring uprisings, the uprisings were to long time dictators, autocrates, what have you, with the end result being some form of elected government. As flawed as Pakistan's government may be, it is an elected one. And of course, there's also the military which is strong enough to crush most if not all opposition within the major cities. -DD |
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Post by dustdevil28 on Feb 3, 2013 12:35:24 GMT -8
It so far appears that they, Egypt, Libya, and Syria are simply throwing off their political masters in favor of philosophical ones.
Syria remains to be seen. IMHO, I think Assad is living on borrowed time.
In Egypt we have a government that narrowly elected a Muslim Brotherhood member as President and largly voted them to parliament due to their good organization. So I have hope there are enough moderates in the population and most importantly, in the military, to keep the extremists in check.
In Libya, by most accounts the moderates won the vote and they are slowly but surly rebuilding themselves into a stable state.
-DD
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