I think that the Arab Spring should be considered a failure. For example, in Egypt the military killed 600 and injured close to 4,000 protesters that believed that Morsi should stay in power. Another example, in Syria the revolution has turned into a civil war. 100,000 people have died since the start of this uprising and not much has changed, Assad is still in power and there had recently been a chemical weapons attack from the government on it's people. 1,400 dead in the recent Syrian chemical weapons attack. Lastly, In Libya, dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi was overthrown and killed in this civil war. During the uprising some people died because of airstrikes from the U.N that killed some innocent people that were in the battlefront that was targeted. The violence continued, last year there was a terrorist attack in Benghazi where the U.S ambassador to Syria was killed. In many countries the Arab Spring has just been sadness and death, there really hasn't been a positive affect on any of the countries. I think that parts of the the middle east can still achieve democratic success. I think eventually the region will become peaceful and democratic because the Arab Spring was the start of something big, in a decade Egypt and Libya and Syria have great potential to be peaceful and democratic.
This was posted on Thursday not Wednesday.
Source: Upfront Magazine-Has the Arab Spring Failed? by Mark Landler, Ben Hubbard, Rick Gladstone, David D. Kirkpatrick, and Alan Cowell of the New York Times.
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