Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen – Crisis and Revolts -
The recent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen should crystallize for every American the volatile situation that Islamic countries are facing. Significantly, when Islamic nations are distressed, the US ought to take notice. Why? Well, because in general the US has had a huge part to play in the dynamics of that nation. In recent years, we have seen a worldwide resurgence of Islamic culture. As Islamic countries in this postmodern age aspire to ascendency in the pecking order of nations, cultural transformations have been occurring at breakneck speeds. Indeed, some of the Islamic third-world nations that only a generation ago were scarcely beyond the Stone Age, have re-emerged as economic powerhouses, while others have languished in poverty. The information revolution has exposed the economic disparity between these groups in such a way that the suffering Islamic nations have found a voice to express their despair to the world that they have never known before.
The repressed Islamic nations, which for generations had been the unappreciated stepchildren of the world’s imperialistic super powers, are breaking free from the constraints of “family” ties that had kept them so neatly in their places. Sadly, many of these stepchild nations were kept in their places by the economic and military influence of the US, which propped up their despotic leaders. Mubarak’s 30-year rule over Egypt is a prime example of the United States’ support of an oppressive dictatorship over an Islamic nation. Did we learn nothing when the Shah of Iran was deposed in 1979? Did we learn nothing from the liberation of Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union? Have we learned nothing from Afghanistan? In an effort to “protect” its economic sovereignty, the US continues to maintain the same policies in other Islamic countries, i.e., Yemen, Oman, Turkmenistan and Saudi Arabia. Yemen is already following in the footsteps of Tunisia and Egypt. How long will it be before we see similar revolts in Oman, Turkmenistan and Saudi Arabia? In any event, it has already been suggested by some that before the dust settles from Egypt’s revolution, that we will see others in Syria and Jordan.
The world order is changing. Countries of the old Islamic Empire are re-emerging at a rapid pace and flexing their “democratic” muscles. Sadly, the US does not seem to have ever been able to understand that you cannot prop up an oppressive dictatorship over a languishing people, hoping that some day they will discover democracy without that same democracy loathing and rebelling against those who held the reins over its oppressors. When a dog is abused long enough it just might bite the hand that feeds it.
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