Looking back, do you think it was the correct decision to topple Gaddafi, Mubarak and Ben Ali?

[Slog]

Discuss

 

[LongHorn]

Gaddafi , No

Mubarak, Not if they gave democracy a chance, but they didnt so he would have been better than the current guy

Ben Ali, Yes as long as it remained confined to Tunisia, but because it instigated the Syrian revolution which destroyed the country, maybe the status quo would have been the lesser evil

 

[chacha kashmiri]

It's never wise to rebel against your leaders especially with the alternative being sectarianism chaos and bloodshed

Imran Khan backed out his November march because his supporters were being arrested and targeted and avoided his whole party being boycotted and blacklisted

The Ennahda party have adopted to the new age democracy in the Middle East and have not polarised public opinion completely either


For those completely against any form of democracy we only have to look at how hadrat Othman was elected

 

[MABA]

The middle east is not built for democracy, they were much more stable and progressive under dictatorial rule. Most of the dictators have been very liberal but the people replacing them have been quite extreme.

 

[Syed1]

Just glad that Pakistan isn't a part of Middle East. Although we have elected dictators and badshahs and darbaris but hopefully the system corrects itself in the next decade or so and we get substantial and effective democracy based on the wishes of the people and that does not curb the voice of all provinces apart from one.

The overthrowing of dictators in the Middle East has led to very very averse conditions in each and every country and in hindsight it would have been better if those dictators had hung onto power.

 

[Bewal Express]

The middle east is not built for democracy, they were much more stable and progressive under dictatorial rule. Most of the dictators have been very liberal but the people replacing them have been quite extreme.

Liberal? Just ask the people who opposed them about their liberalism.

 

[UP]

It was a horrible decision.

Destroyed lives of millions of people.

 

[MABA]

Liberal? Just ask the people who opposed them about their liberalism.

By "liberal" I meant their views towards religion. Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Mubarkak and Assad all are religiously moderate and the people that toppled them were religiously very extreme. I am not condoning what these men did but lets be real their countries are in a much worse situation than when the dictators were in power.

 

[Saeed]

It's for Libyans, Egyptians and Tunisians to decide if it was a good decision or not. Tunisians have already made their decision.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/20/are-tunisians-more-optimistic-about-democracy-after-5-years-living-under-it/
Foreigners have no right to impose so called "secular" dictators as they never lived under them. Syrians and Libyans lived under them and they know the price of stability.

 

[Saeed]

By "liberal" I meant their views towards religion. Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Mubarkak and Assad all are religiously moderate and the people that toppled them were religiously very extreme. I am not condoning what these men did but lets be real their countries are in a much worse situation than when the dictators were in power.

America toppled Saddam Hussian. Rest of them are a separate thing and please quit mixing them with Iraq. Btw Assad is still in power and he said he won't leave till 2021.

 

[Bewal Express]

No doubt they brought stability but we need to stop painting them as some of moderates, these men were greedy and evil whose main goal was to set in place family dynasties. Allah will know better but to me nothing about them seemed remotely Islamic, just lust for power which could be abused for personal gain.

 

[saeedhk]

Gaddafi was a big mistake; it wasn't even a revolution. Mercenaries were paid to wreck havoc in the country to bring down Gaddafi because he was anti-America and anti-imperialism.

 

[KingKhanWC]

No doubt they brought stability but we need to stop painting them as some of moderates, these men were greedy and evil whose main goal was to set in place family dynasties. Allah will know better but to me nothing about them seemed remotely Islamic, just lust for power which could be abused for personal gain.

This is not fully true with Gaddafi. He turned Libya into the most developed country in North Africa.

As for the OP, no foreign entity has the right to destroy a nation to install a leader(s) of their choice. This is state terrorism.