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Subject: Tunisia: From Arab Spring to Carthaginian Summer?
SYSOP    10/29/2014 10:12:30 PM
 
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CJH       11/1/2014 1:19:20 PM
Question - how worthy of emulation is Europe as an economic model?

I am sure most people assume that Europe's economic system is worthy but hasn't post-war Western Europe been critically dependent on access to the world's most robust consumer economy, that of the US. And hasn't that relationship given the appearance of Europe's economy a luster it would not have otherwise had?

One reason Russia may not be afraid to seek the dependence of Europe upon itself may be that it not only sees this relationship between Europe and the US but sees it in the past tense. Discerning a habit of dependence on the part of Europe it is ambitious of capturing this dependence for itself now that the US economy has changed post-2008.

While Tunisia may benefit relatively from emulating Europe, it might benefit more from a truly classical liberalized system as opposed to a Western system.

We would of course benefit from a classical liberal economic system as well. But one caveat might be that for such a system to be sustainable, the population sustaining it must be guided by principles taught from the Bible.

This would present problems for Muslim countries. God can make it work nevertheless though if He so wills. So it would be up to Him.

 
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avatar3    Time To Be Great Again.   11/2/2014 1:17:07 AM
Tunisia is not another Arab country, it has its own special place in the history of civilizations.  Having ejected absolutism and rejected radicalism it faces a future of  economic experimentation and political development. We in the west must recognize that each nation is different and not a cookie cutter copy of each other or France or Egypt or even the USA. The Tunisians have now begun their great experiment. The form of government and the nature of economic programing may not appeal Obama, Putin or Sisi. But as long as it done through legal, honest representative means, the will of the people of Tunisia must be respected. Peace, good luck and God Bless!
 
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CJH       11/23/2014 12:09:55 PM
"It?s worth noting that mainstream Islamist movements in the Arab world no longer include the hudud punishments for theft, adultery, and apostasy in their political platforms and rarely discuss them in public (South and Southeast Asian Islamists haven't been as circumspect). In this sense, the median Egyptian or Jordanian voter is to the right of the main Islamist parties in their respective countries. (Many Muslims say they believe in the hudud because the punishments are in the Quran; whether they would actually be comfortable with the state—a state they may oppose—cutting of someone?s hand for stealing is a rather different question.)"

The Roots of the Islamic State's Appeal "

USAWC Strategy Research Project - Democracy in the Middle East by General Said ElSisi, Egyptian Army

 
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