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Originally Posted by mackinac81
Exactly. It could turn into Iran or it could turn into Turkey (Or Tunisia). but it's too soon to tell and everyone's jumping at the gun to form their own conclusion. None of us have any idea which way this will go. But I hope that in the long run, Libya and the other arab governments will transition to healthy, secular, parliamentary democracies. The process is messy, as Western Europe showed in the 1800s, but it can happen if the right ingredients are in place and the people have the will to make that happen.
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It will never happen in this lifetime or the next if they continue their unabated process of expanding population WITHOUT also expanding the ability to feed themselves without oil resources.
Millions born into poverty and religious oppression simply make for more and more disenfranchised adults who willingly pick up arms to kill someone, anyone, as long as it feeds their anger at the world.
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