Civil War in Libya

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What is likely, however, is that whatever governments come to power will be significantly less favorable to the West.

Are you trolling, or do you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about? You are insinuating that the west will be better off with Qaddafi than any other middle eastern leader chosen at random? He is a madman who has plagued both his people and us while financing terrorism for 30 years. All we need is someone who works in his countries interest and is not completely insane - not too high of a bar. After a few years oil prices will stabilize after more democratic leaders settle in.

There are also throngs of uneducated, highly religious, and easily manipulated people who are more interested in their standard of living than democracy.

Welcome to the United States... My boss believes that the God left fossils in the earth to throw us off and trick us into believing that the world is 4.5672 ± 0.0006 billion years ago when it is actually only a few thousand years old. He also wants to see a Christian theocracy under the leadership of Mike Huckabee. This is NY, imagine what others might think.

These protests are just as much about economic conditions as political ones, and people who have grown up in autocracy are often just as willing to accept a new autocracy that promises change than a democracy that promises change. Witness Iran.
That is the problem. You can bet the Chinese, Russians, Indians, Brazilians and many other countries are lined up in Egypt to make deals (and who would blame them?). We're losing the preferential treatment that has underpinned much of our post-WW2 growth. That may be unavoidable but it is nothing to be jubilant about

The jig is up, the free ride is over. It's time to build our economy on true(-er) capitalism rather than exploitation theory. You are the same guy who defends the Third Reich and wished we had never declared war on Germany. Knock it off, this is a good development. Iran's revolution was over 30 years ago, the world was VERY different then. Take another look at the opposition in Iran today. They would beg to differ with your assessment. There is a time for cynicism and this, of all times, is not it.