Well the revolutions in the middle east are proceeding as expected. Egyptians are challenging the military caretaker government to start addressing their original complaints such as releasing all political prisoners, releasing all the documentation detailing the former regime's actions, and schedule an orderly plan to replace the military caretakers and allow the citizens more control over who runs the country. As far as I can tell there has been little progress and thus the people are back on the streets.
Meanwhile in Libya the entrenched government is getting stronger by the day and there is a very good chance the existing regime will not collapse. Of course the international community is busy holding meetings and avoiding the question on what support should be given to those fighting the government. A couple more days of non-action will insure that the current government can finish their pogrom and resume control over the country.
In both of these conflicts the people pushing for change really have no idea what type of government they want to replace the old with. These seemingly spontaneous rebellions have all been about removing the current governments with little thought about how to create and organize a workable replacement government. The longer the opposition groups argue and fight amongst themselves the faster their countries will continue a descent into chaos. You just need to look at how Iraq has utterly failed to take advantage of having their former despised leadership eliminated and given a chance to start over. Make no mistake the US accomplished their military objectives in removing the former government. It was never the military responsibility to organize a replacement government. You would think with all of the suffering the Iraqis have dealt with would motivate some good faith efforts by their citizens in rebuilding their country but they are wasting their opportunity to do this. Same thing with Afghanistan. The Taliban government was shown the door and the Afghans have failed to take advantage of that. In Egypt the former government was kept in power with strong military support and now the military has managed to eliminate the middle man and take all the power for themselves. The Lybian opposition is comprised of different tribal groups that hate each other and fight amongst themselves which will guarantee that a common government never gets implemented. The whole country is on the verge of being "balkanized" and everyone knows how well that type of governing usually works.
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