Elections are not the answer to the political ills that plague and pillage the peace and prosperity of the Arab world.
Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi has replaced outgoing and highly unpopular Ali Abdullah Saleh, the unifying, though hardly gratifying force, in Yemen for over three decades. Under his administration, he united the divide and divisive Northern and Southern parts of the country, which now threaten to fight again and break away.
Former President Saleh still commands considerable respect in the nation, where party loyalists and family members still dominate the country's corrupt bureaucracy and fearful military.
How many votes cast in a ballot will not determine the well-being of a community, especially the poorest one in the Middle East, one which has labored under state-sponsored terror and backward illiberalism for centuries. The Reformation which upended the established order in Europe and divided asunder church demagogy and state tyranny has not yet occurred throughout the Middle East. Religious zealotry still poisons the Southern nation of the Arabian Peninsula. Although the President-elect has pledged to lead the fight against Al-Qaeda, the nasty terrorist network has established its hold in the region, which in connect with neighboring Somalia has perpetrated ongoing harassment of trade and peoples.
The fourth despot has been swept out by the Arab Spring, yet the stalling reforms for democratic principles in a free society, punctuated by car bombs, ethnic rivalries, inept and incompetent reforms, and a legacy of repression all continue to the threaten the political forces surging in the region.
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