Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff View Post
Who cares? Free people tend to like one another. I imagine that our relationship with Egypt will get much better after their revolution, in spite of the popular expectations. A free middle east will be an economic powerhouse over time. Freedom to think, get an education and troubleshoot the problems that face humanity is essential to our progress as a species. Currently, too many potentially bright minds are oppressed and left stagnating in squalor all over the world.

Doesn't this stuff make you want to get on a flight and go over there to fight and protest with them? Like Orwell in the Spanish Civil War.
I am primarily concerned with what the alternatives to Gaddafi are - whether or not this will end with the birth of a new democracy. Cf. Banquo