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A new age of uncertainty: Why Arab turmoil could mean an orgy of bloodletting and rocketing oil prices rather than a Utopian world order
By Dominic Sandbrook
Last updated at 8:38 AM on 24th February 2011
Even by the repressive standards of Middle Eastern autocrats, Colonel Gaddafi has long cut a brutally capricious figure.
But while nobody who remembers the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher or the appalling slaughter at Lockerbie will mourn Gaddafi’s downfall, this year’s tumultuous events in North Africa could mark a shocking and seismic shift in the balance of power.
We are at a hinge moment in world history. As the Arab revolutions have shown, the old certainties are cracking apart.
And despite the naive predictions of a new liberal order, the future might well prove a very dangerous place indeed — with potentially devastating economic repercussions for millions of British families.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1360095/Middle-East-crisis-lead-orgy-bloodletting-rocketing-oil-prices.html#ixzz1Ex1UsFVM
Like the arrogant neo-conservatives who thought it would be child’s play to export democracy to Iraq...
Since Iraq was a misguided enterprise, I wonder why it is the only country over there not engulfed in flames and still has a mildly stable democracy still in place?