Get half-excited for Middle Eastern democracy!

Now who'da thunk this?  Middle Easterners - Arabs - MUSLIMS! - are agitating for freedom!  For democracy!  For liberty!  WTF?!?!  I thought these people were married to violence and autocracy.  It's one of the few times in my life I'm actually happy be proven wrong about something.  (Mark your calendars, this is an important day - it doesn't happen often ;)

Wow, first Tunisia, then Egypt - I remember when that @#$% Mubarak became Prez after Sadat's assassintion - which happened because too many insane religious whack jobs were pissed off about Sadat's peace accord with Israel a few years earlier.  Which was just proof, I thought, that Muslims just couldn't handle freedom.  I mean, if they'd deny it to others - like Israel's right to freedom from terrorism and open hostility - how could they possibly be free themselves?  Well denial really was just a river in Egypt, especially when it came to Israel's right to exist.

But, that was thirty years ago and Elvis has finally left the building, on that too-long-idling plane.  Buh-bye, Hoz!  Cya!  TTYL!  Don't let the door hitcha inna ass on the way out!

Now Bahrain is up in arms.  And Syria.  And Iran.  Even Libya!  I ask again, WTF?!?!  I thought Terrorist Boy ran that country with a cast-iron fist!  Boy there's just no stopping people when they've got their hearts set on freedom, huh?  Wouldn't it be cool if Gaddaffi was kicked out on his insane terrorist ass?  Okay, lots of experts think that's never gonna happen, but we can dream.  Hey, I'm from 1987 and I still can't get my head around the fact that the Berlin Wall is gonna fall and that Communism in Eastern Europe will die with it.  People soooo don't believe me in 1987 when I tell them that the Berlin Wall is going to fall very soon.  They say I'm a dreamer and on drugs and that I'm beginning to sound dangerously liberal.  And you know, if I was them I'd think so too, but hey, I know otherwise.

The only thing that makes me only half-excited about the Middle Eastern Revolution is the fact that I strongly suspect this is only half a revolution, really.  This freedom shit, this is just for the men, right?  I assume it's not for the women.  Revolutions are never about the women, only the men. 

And, I admit I'm still waiting to see if, once the dust has settled and the smoke has cleared, whether democracy really takes hold anywhere.  There's a part of me that still thinks that probably Islamic extremism is going to take hold like it always seems to every time a Muslim dictator is overthrown.  Look what happened to Iraq - I have to admit, while the U.S. definitely did the right thing getting rid of Saddam, we didn't plan very well for the freedom thing.  Granted, I suspect bringing democracy to Muslims is like trying to teach a pig to sing.  First, the pig has got to want to sing...

Still, I hope you guys prove me wrong.  I really, seriously do.  The Middle East is so better off without all the damn authoritarianism.  And don't let those nutty extremists take over either; they're about as committed to liberty as the Tunisian secret police.

Good luck guys!  And ladies, see if you can at least get the newly-liberated to at least let you walk aruond in the desert sun in something more uncomfortable than a black chador...

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[Grim Reaper]

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