CapelDodger
Penultimate Amazing
Well said.
You do realise that this forum was around in 2011 and that there are contemporary threads about what was happening at the time? That most of us remember what happened just under 7 years ago? I'm sure you do, because you were in there blaming the US for the Arab Spring at the time.
You also remember that at the time Mubarek's downfall in Egypt was happening, the Tunisian Government had fallen and that people were also protesting in Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen, and Iran as well?
The Libyan Protests were not happening in a vacuum. They were mirrors of what was happening all over the Middle East at the time.
I would just add that the gerontocracies brought down could not have been much longer for this world anyway. I've been a keen observer of the Middle East since the 6-day War and they were all familiar from the 60's. The whole region was frozen in time.