lol at arab spring, again

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I never was a big fan of the term "Arab spring". I'm largely supportive of the uprisings but any real gains (i.e. the establishment of modern, democratic governments) would always be a long term result. In the short term, as HoreTore notes, violence and such are to be expected.

Which two, if you mean Libya, it was attacked because turning to gold would have killed French banks. Don't remember any hallelujah over the riots am sich being an arab spring comming from them. Attacking Libya was completely immoral and I never supported it. Lefties did though because they bought into the arab spring. That's the only war I can think of though

Is this about Ghadaffi's idea to introduce a pan-African currency? If so, file that under "ambitious ideas which Ghadaffi has on a regular basis but which never amount to anything". It's not even a recent idea - he has proposed the idea before, years ago.

Ghadaffi had an international outlook, so to speak. He was one of the staunchest pan-Arab advocates - being a megalomaniac, he imagined that he'd be the natural successor to Nasser. But since Libya is one of the smaller Arab countries in population, and none of the others took Gadaffi as a person very seriously, that ambition was doomed from the start. Because of that, he largely abandoned pan-Arabism and embraced pan-Africanism instead. Funny fact is that his change in clothing habits seem to coincide.

Like his pan-Arabism however, it's underlying purpose is to make him look important, and it would most likely lead to nothing. The idea that NATO felt threatened by this brain fart of his (the african currency) and decided to remove him for that reason is crazy.