http://www.hulu.com/watch/13369/planet-of-the-apes-cant-we-all-just-get-along
The truth is, the Middle East and North Africa are going through an Arab Spring where the people of those countries are taking their freedom by force. The statement 'freedom isn't free' must be felt by the protestors in the affected countries. The old and the new are fighting, the old regimes trying to cling on to absolute and theocratic power and the new being the young people of the countries that are tired of being treated as second class citizens in their home country. Syria is even going as far as to intimidate its own people to keep them from exercising any right to assembly http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/04/28/syria.unrest/index.html. The result are protests and violent outbreaks between the two with the only hope of peace being at the end when hopefully the protestors take power and create reformed governements that protect their rights.
We the people here in america like to think that everyone on the globe can get along with everyone else they share it with. And it would be great if that were the case. But we can see from the news reports coming out of the protest areas that this isn't the case. Whoever holds the biggest guns in the area likes to assume power in that area. Great example is the way that the police in each of the protesting countries have been ordered to shoot the protesters that are considered speaking out to much against the oppressive governments.
Armed protesters in Cairo throw rocks to resist the Egyptian Police
The truth is, the Middle East and North Africa are going through an Arab Spring where the people of those countries are taking their freedom by force. The statement 'freedom isn't free' must be felt by the protestors in the affected countries. The old and the new are fighting, the old regimes trying to cling on to absolute and theocratic power and the new being the young people of the countries that are tired of being treated as second class citizens in their home country. Syria is even going as far as to intimidate its own people to keep them from exercising any right to assembly http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/04/28/syria.unrest/index.html. The result are protests and violent outbreaks between the two with the only hope of peace being at the end when hopefully the protestors take power and create reformed governements that protect their rights.
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