The World as backdrop

Maybe it's me...my sense of being on a roller coaster watching as the Arab/Africa world is throwing its shackles off or to paraphrase one Libiyan, 'fear was faced and is no more.'
In regard to Libya, American officials continue to mumble meely-mouthed statements about not acceptable to bomb civilians, being held acountable...all weak kneed statements. Of course those of us back seat drivers dont know what's going on behind the scenes or closed doors, but somehow the US managed to speak up about Mubarak...is it oil and the $100 a barrel problem that's holding us back from once again taking the moral high road? Is it fear that the maniacal Tent Dweller will resort to using chemicals as had been done previously by other regimes? Last night Anderson Cooper was discussing how American were expected within 6 hours to be at the coast for ferry pickup; flights could not get to the airport, there was no way to coordinate land evacuation and he summed up the situation as "people have to decide for themselves if its safe to go into the street and make it to the departure location" That's very reassuring. Cooper put it into context, the US embassy only has about 35 people who had to get out. How disengenuous. We've known for decades the ticking bomb Tent Dweller is and remained there without a menu of evacuation plans? I guess not.
You have a people, quite different in temperment than Egyptians, but we are seeing a similar human intelligence, a sense of ethic and morality and as noted by others today, al Qaeda has no foothold, is pathetically obsolete as one population after another is demanding freedom, not a different form of spiritual, emotional and physical enslavement.

The dynamics of Islam and cultural/tribal traditions almost require a perpetuation of behaviors the West looks at askance i.e. the role and treatment of women. I know where from I write, dont assume my comments are made lightly or from bias.
That said, the cries for democracy in Arab countries cannot be actualized if the manner of how Islam is practiced is not brought into the 21st century. You cannot have 15th century sharia law existing in a democratized society; I disagree that Turkey is a model for the Islamic world, the tightrope walked by the religious and the military is very tight, almost abnormal...like pushing a round peg into a square hole, insisting it fits, it fits.

As a side note, its a hoot reading that the Iranian Mussolini is making announcements that Arab governments must heed their people's calls for reform. Iran is so sh*t faced scared that the lack of terror, the desire for freedom will hit its shores and its own young people will decide, death or liberation, we're done with this and with you.

So the world as backdrop had me thinking as I watch American television and have to keep looking, digging around the channels for news on Libya, Bahrain, Yemen...its almost as if the programming honchos have made the decision that one televised revolution (Egypt) was enough for Americans, its back to the usual mindless myriad of repeat shows with vulgar sexualized behaviors of every kind, broken families, cop shows and most fascinating are people who hoard or drug users. Watching hoarders who exist in homes overloaded with stuff they cannot use, often with filth, garbage, vermin or just so much s.t.u.f.f. while people are being murdered for the simple right of being able to watch a television that is not censored or buy something to eat that is more than bread & fuul.

There is such imbalance in the world...for all the attempts by some Americans to send donations or have empathy for 3rd world countries, it is impossible to know what it means to live in a hovel without sewage removal, without consistent electricity, clean water, food as needed, lives without remedy for injustice and police abuse, genuine medical care for illnesses other than gentian violet or zinc ointment (Egypt are you listening???) and to live without retribution when one asks for corrections of these inhumane lifestyles.

Maybe we need to ask, in the United States, as these revolutions are birthing new civilizations, what are the baselines for which human beings should be allowed to live? And why are American citizens being pushed to donate, donate donate to every place around the world as the American government simultaneously gives billions in aid to very regimes who have brought all this destruction onto the global community?

Since China now owns too much of the US, it will be interesting to see how the revolution there unfolds and how much of a muzzle the lapdogs of the world will have to wear as the Chinese are slaughtered to keep them in line.

I still haven't made my point which was going to be the juxtaposition of atching television-CNN/Piers Morgan-providing a perfunctory update on the Libyan revolution, then quickly switching to a scheduled interview of 85 year old Hugh Hefner and his 20 something bride to be about their upcoming marriage. When a giggling inarticulate girl, 50+ years younger than a man whose dick doesnt function without Viagra, who gets off watching multiple women do each other in his bed, is asked why she is marrying a man so much older...it's a human moment of such obscene proportions one questions reality or sanity. She's whoring for money...not unlike the US whoring for oil...its hard to put such romance into words.