The Next Tunisia/Five Arab states that are ripe for revolution

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United Arab Emirates

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Well I wouldn't mind revolutions in the first four, but deposing the monarchy in Jordan would be a tragedy.

Why ?

Whatever replaces it won't be so nice.....

Why not ? We didn't speak about which regime we would replace the current ones with. Just that the current ones should fall.

Would you be ok with Islamists taking over Jordan? Personally I would be fine with it because I am not a Jordanian and my opinion doesn't count. That doesn't mean don't I prefer a secular monarchy to it (with a secular democracy being the dream).

If the Jordanians want a Muslim Brotherhood-led government, they should be allowed to have one.

All this talk of "I want Arabs to have secular governments" is nothing more than mere imperialism and intervention in internal affairs of said countries of the sort that caused these problems in the first place.

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Sure it is. And I'm fine with that. I really don't care what 50%+1 of the Jordanians want. The monarchy is better for them and the region and the world than a radical Islamist regime.

The monarchy is not better for them, which is only good for a select rich 300 families.

They want socialist Islam, which is better for the poor.

How would it matter for the world at large what government Jordan has? It's a tiny irrelevant country, [which seems content to export its malcontents to Iraq], that could be eliminated by the wind misdirecting an Iranian nuke.