http://www.todayszaman.com/news-268250-arab-monitor-quits-syria-mission-in-disgust.html Amazing, Assad actually ramped up the crackdown after monitors showed up...and theres seems to be dwindling outrage.
A sudanese general is responsible for human rights monitoring??? What better way to protect a bloody regime by making another bloody regime its human rights watch dog.
The ' Arab League ' monitors aren't connected to the UN. The Arab League has been tainted with US of AIPAC pressure and inducements for quite some time. That's contrary to his anti-Assad instructions, poor confused fellow.
Assad, Gadhafi, and Mubarak are all the same. They are/were dictators, and they probably keep/kept their countries in line the only way they could. If Assad gets ousted, we'll probably just have yet another Islamist government.
NATO invaded Libya after getting the nod from the Arab League. That's still an option for Syria- if the tales of horrors can be pumped up enough. Trouble is- there's at least one Russian warship parked up. No, Mubarak worked for the US of AIPAC. He didn't like it, but it paid well.
I don't think that really matters. Whether a brutal dictator serves us or serves some other power (or no foreign power) really has no bearing on how I view him. It's only a matter of considering what happens when said dictator is removed. Clearly, neither Egypt nor Libya was ready for truly representative government. Syria probably isn't either. Iraq having a democracy might turn out to be a mistake as well.
Any people with any sense will avoid the Western model of ' representative ' government like the plague. You surely must agree, having seen the Republican candidate line-up ? I would make a better president than any of them- and I'm an anarchist.
It depends on the country. It seems to work just fine for smaller countries like Norway and Finland. It just runs into problems with the larger countries, but that's probably true of any governmental design.
Some smaller Scandinavian countries do seem quite progressive, that's true, and I don't profess to know why that is. I know a couple of Norwegian government personnel personally so I'll ask them about it next time we meet up.
AL pullin' its observers outta Syria... Arab League halts observer mission in Syria Sat Jan 28,`12 The Arab League halted its observer mission in Syria on Saturday because of escalating violence that killed nearly 100 people the past three days, as pro-Assad forces battled dissident soldiers in a belt of suburbs on the eastern edge of Damascus in the most intense fighting yet so close to the capital.
