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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Are Middle East Revolutions a Prelude to Armageddon? - Yahoo! News

Are Middle East Revolutions a Prelude to Armageddon? - Yahoo! News: "COMMENTARY | Columnist Niall Ferguson wrote in this week's Newsweek, 'Time and again, Americans have hailed revolutions, only to fall strangely silent as those same revolutions proceeded to devour not only their own children but many other people's, too. In each case the body count was in the millions.'

He believes the current uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, even though they are revolutions by people yearning for democracy, will end in a bloody carnage such as what happened with the French, Chinese and Russian revolutions.

We, as Americans, have been ingrained since birth with the belief freedom and democracy are ideals worth fighting for and defending.

What happened in Egypt and what is happening in the Middle East reveals how deep the longing is for freedom and democracy in the hearts of oppressed people.

The desire for a real representative government and freedom from economic slavery will continue to spread across the Arab world like wildfire.

Then there is the danger these revolutions will not end up creating free and democratic states, rather, a situation where the people will be worse off than before and our hold in the Middle East and North Africa forever shaken off."

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