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Old 03-08-2011, 11:40 AM   #372 (permalink)
aceventura3
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Originally Posted by dc_dux View Post

These are not economic issues.
So, the government reforms and better "services" are related to...what? I am betting that some are a bit upset that they have yet to get the benefit of economic opportunity, and that when they do they will be satisfied. I acknowledge that there will always be people fighting for political power and political control, but that as a given, is not the reason people at the grassroots level revolt against their government.

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Originally Posted by roachboy View Post
ace--you offer nothing remotely like an understanding of anything in the middle east. you offer the same lame warmed-over neoliberal bullshit you always offer.

the thread has been about trying to understand things by looking at actual information.

you offer nothing. why waste your time with this? go play somewhere else.
You say that because you can't get passed my style of posting and actually read what I have shared. Pretty much a "you" problem.
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