The uprising in Libya is not like the "Arab Spring" movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Syria. In Egypt, Tunisia and Syria, although the police and military fired upon and killed and injured protesters, the protesters in these countries did not/are not arm(ing) themselves, fight(ing) back with violence and (are) kill(ing) and injure/injuring police and soldiers. Egypt, Tunisa and Syria were/are not civil wars. The U.S. and NATO did not/have not (yet) intervened in Egypt, Tunisia and Syria.
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I WAS DUPED!
Like the rest of you, we have been lied to by the Fawning Corporate Media about the Syrian protesters being unarmed and nonviolent - the innocent victims of a despotic and violent state that is committing murder/crimes against humanity against its own people.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/08/18/d-day-for-damascus/
The [U.S.] President's statement isn't aimed at the Syrian people, however, but at the other imperialist powers, the Brits and the French, our "multilateral" partners-in-crime who will be asked, when push comes to shove, to share in the responsibilities of policing their former colonies in Syria, and Libya.
The similarity of these two theaters of conflict is striking: Both are former European colonies saddled with secular dictatorships that claim to be "socialist," and both feature an Islamist "democratic" opposition supported by the NATO/EU powers.
That the Assad forces hardly constitute an army of saints goes without saying: what needs to be said, however, is that the "democratic" rebels, so sympathetically portrayed in the Western media are not exactly the angels they've been made out to be. Yet even if they were, this is a judgement that only the Syrians can make ...