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Related: About this forumIncredible footage of the largest protest in mankinds history!! Egypt's Revolution.
&feature=player_embeddedArctic Dave
(13,812 posts)That would be the protest against bush invading Iraq. It was worldwide, this is just one country.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts).
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)so in the spirit of today, a day of commemorating liberty for us, and a day of achieving liberty for them, they deserve to receive recognition for amassing the largest number of people in a protest in one place ever in the history of the world.
The world's people can be very proud that such a difficult undertaking was achieved in the Middle East, a region of the world where war, strife and tension are dealt with on a daily basis. I raise my glass to the Egyptians.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)I agree with you!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)and a nation-building exercise that has achieved only fragile, uncertain gains. Far from a mission accomplished, the American adventure in Iraq has become a cautionary tale of hubris and poor planning. Its clear the Wests current reluctance to take more direct action in ending Syrias bloody civil war is, in part, a legacy of the U.S. experience in Iraq, where the disintegration of a regime spawned a whole new phase of sectarian slaughter and chaos.
http://world.time.com/2013/02/15/viewpoint-why-was-the-biggest-protest-in-world-history-ignored/
I went searching for some information on this....
dballance
(5,756 posts)He sure brought them together against him and his government.
Who's going to replace him and the MB? Who's the heir apparent?
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,728 posts)No free speech zone that big.
dickthegrouch
(3,174 posts)to prove that in fact the entire country IS a free speech zone thanks to The Constitution.
Free speech zones are only tolerated by a people too cowed by supposed authority to declare them invalid.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,728 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)The Egyptians just voted out Morsi the same way they voted out Mubarak.
I'm sure the Egyptians will get it right and perhaps sooner rather later. They have substantive democracy and are still working on the procedural part. In America, we first established procedural democracy and did such a good job of it that now upper class tyrants are trying to dismantle it before substantive democracy at long last takes root here.
BobbyBoring
(1,965 posts)The ruling class fears this can happen here. If everyone would turn off Dancing with the stars, Honey Boo Boo, etc, it could.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)NSA surveillance has nothing to do with terra.