D Laurier
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Post by D Laurier on Dec 18, 2011 10:35:10 GMT -5
hullo brendanrizzo. Well said.
There are still a few royal houses in the region that are (or were) very progressive. Arab nobles with American education, who wanted a ceremonial monarchy in a secular, industrialized, arab parliamentary republic. These houses were generaly outlawed by the british and french colonial authoritys who ruled the region between 1919 and 1948, but many did survive the slaughter, and may still exist in a reduced form. America did support these houses during the Arab wars of independance (1915-1918). And America also condemned the Anglo/French betrayal, partition, and colonization of their Arab allies in 1919, warning that such an act would have dire consequences in the future. Saudi Arabia was alowed to be a country, only because its ruling house agreed to hand over everything to the British.
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Post by brendanrizzo on Dec 18, 2011 14:18:15 GMT -5
hullo brendanrizzo. Well said. There are still a few royal houses in the region that are (or were) very progressive. Arab nobles with American education, who wanted a ceremonial monarchy in a secular, industrialized, arab parliamentary republic. These houses were generaly outlawed by the british and french colonial authoritys who ruled the region between 1919 and 1948, but many did survive the slaughter, and may still exist in a reduced form. America did support these houses during the Arab wars of independance (1915-1918). And America also condemned the Anglo/French betrayal, partition, and colonization of their Arab allies in 1919, warning that such an act would have dire consequences in the future. Saudi Arabia was alowed to be a country, only because its ruling house agreed to hand over everything to the British. Holy crap, Steven Grasse was actually right about something. Well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Anyway, you have pointed out something very depressing. This, as well as another thread about Africa have pretty much made an ironclad case that the sole, or at least the major, reason why there are horrific dictatorships existing at the same time as enlightened democracies, and countries where absolute poverty is the norm exist contemporaneously with countries where poverty of any kind is most definitely not the norm, is that the countries of the West, even though they claim to have denounced and rejected imperialism in all its forms, have a conspiracy amongst themselves to ensure that no country which has not already reached the status of "First World" will ever reach the status of First World. And here is something even more worrying about that. Europe as a whole is much more liberal than the United States. European countries also tend to be even more democratic than the United States. If even the extremely-liberal citizenry of Europe have failed to convince their governments to stop this conspiracy to retard the progress of everywhere else, no matter how liberal the governments are, then the situation will never end. The current geopolitical situation, in which there are countries which socially and economically never left the Middle Ages, will continue until the Sun engulfs the Earth. All those not-for-profit organizations devoted to the cause of universal human rights and ending poverty are doomed to failure. They truly are. If it turns out, that centuries and centuries in the future, this issue will be solved or at least greatly reduced, I won't care. Because I will be dead, and I will only care if we start to see legitimate progress in this area while I am alive. Of course, after the Second World War there was progress in that area, but it leveled off after a few years. The same thing happened after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and the same thing is happening now in the Arab Spring. There is never a continuous liberation of countries; it always stops after five or six, and that's if you're lucky. And since the West devotes a lot of resources to ensuring that Africa and the Middle East never advance, that's no consolation at all.
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