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War & politics: Sept 11th, bin Laden, Middle East news, from my own perspective.

18 January 2005   

 

Brutal repression sometimes works

Telegraph: Saudi Arabia continues to crush the political community that could provide them a level of immunity to a bloody coup d'etat. Fifteen anti-monarchy demonstrators, including a woman, have been sentenced to public lashings and jail terms in Saudi Arabia. The sentences are a signal that the government will not tolerate open opposition despite undertakings to liberalise.

I can't decide on which side of the fence I sit. Crush everything that resembles opposition, or let it have a voice? In any other country I'd say let them have a voice, but in Saudi perhaps things are different? Nah! Throughout history, repression loses—eventually.
 

 Source: John Robb's Weblog; 18/01/2005; 10:35:30.
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Guardian: Now US ponders attack on Iran

"They think in Iran you can just go in and hit the facilities and destabilise the government. They believe they can get rid of a few crazy mullahs and bring in the young guys who like Gap jeans, all the world's problems are solved. I think it's delusional," the former CIA officer said.

Seymour Hersh said last night on BBC news that there was no way anybody could stop this, now that the neo-cons are in charge in the Whitehouse,
Christian politicians at war with Muslim clerics. Religious wars have always been with us. When will humanity grow up?
 


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