An Unprecedented Crisis

[ClubMed]

Alternative Commentary

The Arab Condition
by EDWARD SAID

http://www.counterpunch.com/said05202003.html

(Wear your asbestos underwear if you need to)

[osprey4]

CM, where in the world have you been? It's getting downright boring around here.

[ClubMed]

[osprey4]

Thoephylact has been MIA, too.

[RADAR1797]

Theophylact is just on vacation. He always thinks of constructive ways to express his opinion on the board.

-RADAR

[korgul]

[BFlurie]

Simply posting predictably slanted newslinks w/o any intelligent or thoughtful comments is spamming/trolling.

[RustyGT]

Agreed.
What is it with the spam a thon?

For weeks RR, has hit us like a plague.
Now CM thinks this forum is fair game.

Enuff 'news we cant use' already.

Community used to be a refuge from the madness.

Not a competition for "who can post the most insane news stories"

Give us a break blokes.

Sheesh. R.

For weeks RR, has hit us like a plague.

All my weird news posts are now contained within one thread for each day, though it is usually just every other day. Each single weird news post is commonly pushed off the first community forum page in less than 24 hours, so how is that spamming?

I can always go back the old format if ya' like.

CM, perhaps you should do the same, so as to keep the clutter to a minimum.

Robert Richmond

[ClubMed]

Points noted.

This is a good article, we, the Arab world are fragmented, this weakens us and causes us to fragment in persuit of our national interest: security in the region, democracy, power to the people, strong presence on the global theatre.

I am one of those who favour a unity, a pooling of our resources, an official strategy to which all adher. Unity in persuit of democracy, unity in persuit of security, a common foreign policy, national policies where we, the people, come first and not some outside nation and it's national interests.

That's my main point, and that's what I take out of this article.

Unity is good for anyone and everyone...