The Obama Administration's policy on free speech and the appraisal of so-called Arab Spring, seems to stand on the principle that to encourage people to revolt is a part of diplomacy and a way to rule the region without using force to achieve the same results -- to remove the hostile regimes. The protest that toppled governments includes the violent uprising where people took to street -- with or without weapons to oppose what they call the long time oppressors or simply put, dictators. When, however, those who are freed from the hierarchical rigid frameworks of the society and get the access to arms that help them to get whatever they want, the moral binding or even what the religion hold them to some sort of reasonable acceptance of status quo disappear. They become lawless mobs that demand benefits for their own sake, at times, risking their own longer term interests.
That principle apparently does not guarantee the most essential of all responsible stakeholders should provide, namely, the rules of laws that promises a peaceful means to do business and to elect those rulers that are supposed ensure safety to people without the help from outer sources. What then, will happen to those who become astray on street without means to earn living in a stable economy that is essential in doing any business? All they have learned is to get to the street and demand what they want regardless what the state says even when the state comprises of those whom they have elected. They learned to demand and learned how to get it. Would diplomacy have a say in the process in rebuilding the nation? Most probably not. It is because, all other nations will benefit from the perils that the neighboring states are going through. There will be no fear that they would attack either politically or militarily. They will become no competitors in the ever fairer world market. They might even ask for helps for political supports, for coming elections.
To whom would they turn to then, when things do not go as they are supposed to? Where are the fairness, the rules, the justice that they can rely on where honest works pay them? Rome can not be built in a day. Destruction seems to be easier than building a society. The war in Iraq lasted just weeks. What is hard is to build a peaceful society where fairness governs under the laws they agree to impose upon themselves. When even the cultural limitations are removed, by outer influences, what they have is hopeless chaos where local moguls rule with money, regardless of where the money is from. It will take a long time to give the sense of responsibility to the government they elect in the fledgling democracy.
Where the US stands, will influence the coming elections in the Middle East. By exercising its veto power over the Palestinian independent bid, the US will be 'isolated' from the rest of the world. The possible veto will put the United States against the people in Arab world. It will give extremists the very excuses that they need to give them the ground to take up arms and fight against America, an Israeli ally, corrupt with lobbying money. The United States should stand on their side when they try to create democratic governments that denounce violence and pursue peaceful ways for negotiation.
That principle apparently does not guarantee the most essential of all responsible stakeholders should provide, namely, the rules of laws that promises a peaceful means to do business and to elect those rulers that are supposed ensure safety to people without the help from outer sources. What then, will happen to those who become astray on street without means to earn living in a stable economy that is essential in doing any business? All they have learned is to get to the street and demand what they want regardless what the state says even when the state comprises of those whom they have elected. They learned to demand and learned how to get it. Would diplomacy have a say in the process in rebuilding the nation? Most probably not. It is because, all other nations will benefit from the perils that the neighboring states are going through. There will be no fear that they would attack either politically or militarily. They will become no competitors in the ever fairer world market. They might even ask for helps for political supports, for coming elections.
To whom would they turn to then, when things do not go as they are supposed to? Where are the fairness, the rules, the justice that they can rely on where honest works pay them? Rome can not be built in a day. Destruction seems to be easier than building a society. The war in Iraq lasted just weeks. What is hard is to build a peaceful society where fairness governs under the laws they agree to impose upon themselves. When even the cultural limitations are removed, by outer influences, what they have is hopeless chaos where local moguls rule with money, regardless of where the money is from. It will take a long time to give the sense of responsibility to the government they elect in the fledgling democracy.
Where the US stands, will influence the coming elections in the Middle East. By exercising its veto power over the Palestinian independent bid, the US will be 'isolated' from the rest of the world. The possible veto will put the United States against the people in Arab world. It will give extremists the very excuses that they need to give them the ground to take up arms and fight against America, an Israeli ally, corrupt with lobbying money. The United States should stand on their side when they try to create democratic governments that denounce violence and pursue peaceful ways for negotiation.