Requiem for the Arab Spring

[Ted King]

cbelt3 wrote:
The expectations of a country that has been a democracy for its entire existence as a multicultural polytheistic amalgm can only be assumed to be naive in the extreme when applied to other countries who are neither multicultural nor polytheistic.

American optimism is another word for 'You have no freaking idea what other countries are like, do you ?"

I think I must have expressed things in a way that gave people the impression that I expected that greater democracy would be a result of the uprisings. I didn't expect that. There was an element to the uprising that fit the "Arab Spring" mold and I was hoping that it would gain traction, but I didn't expect it.