re: #166 Pie-onist Overlord

The sad thing is that Arab countries have a terrible track record when it comes to regime change. Like we saw in Egypt last year, millions of people take to the streets to overthrow a tyrant, and they do! But then who is waiting to fill the void? Sadly, it’s another tyrant.

10 years spent in Iraq “winning hearts and minds” (yeah right) and who’s in charge now?

The most stable regimes are the ones that are ruled by absolute monarchs.

Yes, but we (and other Western powers) have been meddling in their affairs for ages, including propping up their dictators, so it’s no wonder they don’t have a clue how to be democratic. Now, with groups like Hamas, ISIS, the MB, etc. it seems to me that it only complicates things as they’d need to not only overthrow a tyrant, but also be capable of beating back violent extremists (all while figuring out how to run a country and build a democracy).

That’s a pretty tall order, so they end up falling back to the absolute monarchs (or other strongmen types).