How the East was won.

The upheavals and travails that are ongoing in the Middle East today have all come about due to the "West", read developed European and American nations. The breakthrough was not via, as one would expect, governments and their various sanctions and/or inducements. Nor was it from the preaching of intellectuals to the hierarchy and intelligentsia of the old Middle East.

The long awaited breakthrough was due to technologies and globalisation. These new technologies,such as smart phones, the Internet and so on, have managed to disseminate new ideas and freedom of information to peoples previously hidden behind impenetrable sand barriers put up by their governments. These governments can no longer rely on a naive and ignorant population, information is freely at the peoples fingertips. It is the ordinary peoples of the "West" that have done the job, broken the camels back so to say, doing what "Western" governments have been trying for years to do, the ordinary people of the Middle East are listening to the ordinary people of the "West", as they have an innate mistrust of governments and their various pronouncements.

Slowly and surely the people of this area are learning of their potential to change things. This will be an ongoing process and not a short one, it is up to them though, in what direction they wish to take the proceedings. Time will tell if they can manage it or whether a new grouping will come along and hijack the revolution that they put in place. Lack of any organisation and civil society has and will continue to hurt the aspirations of the majority, to run their country as they wish it to be run, by building the blocks to a civil society these people will be given a voice, and no longer will various historical groupings and entities be voicing their opinions for them. But for me i see that further down the line, not something that is readily available, the want for it is in society but is the political space available.... as i said before, only time shall tell.