On air from Cairo: Arab Uprisings Special

The difference in the response from the UN in Syria compared to the response in Libya, perhaps its the case Libya has vast deposits of oil and Syria does not, most countries are dpendant on the supply of oil, another reason, it had taken time for the UN to get involved in Libya, also most leaders deslike Gadaffi for his past policies, example 'Lockerbie'. There is no doubt the atrocities by the government of Syria is as bad as that in Libya, and NATO is streched financially but it is high time to also attack by air the Syrian military and bomb Assad's infrastructure.

I do not know what to ask or say about the Arab unrest in Libya or Syria, other than I think NATO must now believe interference in the former situation was an error that will not be repeated in the latter instance. The world (including NATO) would be better off if more people understood that as dull as diplomacy is, it is still a far keener scalpel than war. The keenest of all of course would be forensic accounting, that is if the tax havens could be brought under some unified, honest, open control. Despotism is a for profit enteprise! All of it is enabled by off-shore banking secrecy (Despots never count their fortunes in their own country's currency.).
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The fall of Mubarak, the cataclysmic events in Syria, Yemen and other parts of the Middle East are real eye-openers. Gadaffi and his henchmen will be defeated The region will never be the same again. One can only hope that democracy and the basic freedoms will take deep root as the people in these countries yearn for decent living standards, education and employment. Hopefully dictators will never see the light of day again. Despotic leaders should never be given the chance to subjugate citizens. Muslim leaders should take the opportunity of inculcating moderate Islamic principles and should try to bridge their differences with other faiths. Extremism will only exacerbate the volatile situation. Extremists, dictators and terrorists should never be given sanctuary. Arab citizens have shown that they will not tolerate any further suppression of their basic human rights. There is certainly a new dawn in the Arabic world.

The UN somehow have the special policies in the middle east that make priority in one country than the other-but the uprising consider to be the ever since the history of arabs,so we take it carefuly until the good result recorded soon not earlier.

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