All language is but a poor translation.
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It is conceivable that mattes may get so much worse that one might ponder the thought “is it really worth it?” First, the events of the past week do not constitute such deterioration, and are far from it. Second, if anything, the tens of thousands of people killed after the NATO attack, compared to a fraction before the intervention, might have been that point, but of course, the wrong kind was dying then, and NATO had the biggest guns on the scene. Such metrics don’t rise to the occasion. But all of a sudden, the statement is made not just vis-à-vis Libya, or where angry mobs ransacked and burned. Rather, it pertained to the entire series of uprisings, the so-called Arab Spring. Why settle for contemplating a return to the status-quo ante in just a couple of places? Let’s “sweep it all up.” It’s all the same anyway and the circumstances and trajectory of individual cases matter little (except, perhaps, Syria, because, from the US perspective, “Asad must go” for reasons beyond authoritarian rule).
–“Was the Arab Spring Really Worth It?”: The Fascinating Arrogance of Power via Jadaliyya (via arielnietzsche)
After nearly a 100,000 deaths since January 2011 when the uprisings started, and after decades of brutal repression that were steadfastly supported and partly funded by western powers (namely the United States), we wonder about the value of breaking from such shackles, as though it was a bad investment in Facebook stock. “Maybe we should keep supporting these lovely dictatorships.”
good stuff.
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Source: jadaliyya.com
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