Saturday, November 26, 2011

Bahrain's Woes in the Midst of the Arab Spring

The international commission in charge of investigating torture allegations has concluded that the island nation resorted to excessive force was used.

Any force used to put down legitimate protest will always be excessive.

It is reprehensible for the King of Bahrain to manipulate the Islamist nation of Iran as a Western boogieman to maintain hegemony over the country.

The Arab people deserve to be free -- they do not deserve the ongoing tyrranny of "moderate" strongmen who play off United States foreign policy concerns to stay in power.

The United States CIA took out Bin Laden in failure-state Pakistan. They finished al-Awlaki in failed state Yemen, all without assistance from the Arab and Middle Eastern states whose aid we had been soliciting with political and economic favors during the War on Terror.

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