All Quiet on the Fronts

Isn't interesting that the talk of war has subsided? Wasn't Syria on the verge of an American invasion for its role in its meddling in Iraqi affairs as well as its known support of international terrorism? What of Iran? Remember those F14 and F18 flyover's in Tehran? It appears there is nothing to report in the Main Stream Media these days. Afghanistan has literally fallen off the earth as far as the MSM is concerned and then even in Iraq, which is a "quagmire" you know, has seen a major descent in reporting of bad news.

So what are we to make of these things? Is this the calm before the storm? Perhaps, but we are however witnessing a very interesting development in an equally important area of politics as a domino like effect of "democratic revolutions" are bearing fruit throughout the world. Ever since President Bush supported Yuschenko in Ukraine there apparently has been a perverbial Tsunami of populous uprisings throughout the old Soviet Union and its satellites from Kiev to Bishkek to Ulan Bator. From Publius Pundit comes this little tidbit:

Two Russian ethnic republics, Ingushetia and Bashkortostan, have seen mass street demonstrations this week directed against Kremlin-installed leaders. Even in remote Mongolia, the former USSR’s Asian satellite, hundreds of protesters gathered last week to “congratulate our Kyrgyz brothers” and demand a rerun of last June’s disputed parliamentary polls.

Now even in Africa there is demands for more transparent and accountable government in Zimbabwe under the cruel and ugly hand of Mugabe. In the Middle East, Lebanon is still a major point of turmoil as the Syrians are slowly egressing after nearly a quarter of a century of tyranical rule under the Assads after the people clearly let it be known they are no longer welcomed. The tsunami wave of revolution has even reached the remote mountains of the Himalyas as word comes from Bhutan regarding its future:

The king of the Himalayan state of Bhutan announced the end of a century of absolute royal rule yesterday with the publication of a draft constitution to establish a multiparty democracy.

King Jigme Singye Wangchuck said that by the end of the year his 700,000 subjects would be given the right to elect two houses of parliament, whose members would be empowered to impeach the monarch by a two-thirds vote.

Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom between India and China, does not have a written constitution and its monarchy goes back to the days of the British Raj, when Jigme’s great-grandfather was anointed king by London.

The British-educated King Jigme, who succeeded at the age of 16 in 1972, said an absolute monarchy was an anachronism.

All these things are occuring now as I write this blog. Truly amazing events unfolding before us when we consider how ascendent the iron-grip of communism was just 20 years ago. Perhaps its the whiplash of freedom that the world is experiencing since the advent of the World Wide Web. The people can get online and literally talk or read about something across the spectrum of political intercourse that no dictator, be he man or system, can prevent or hide. Perhaps its America and her ideals fastened with the accutrements of technology that really have provided the catalyst for these movements throughout the world.

As the military situation appears quiet for the moment in the War on Terror, the revolutions sweeping dicatorships thoughout the world has just begun. The only question remains: How will the dictatorship of the proletariet respond?