up-Front Magazine: Has the Arab Spring Failed?

up-Front Magazine: Has the Arab Spring Failed?
 
                The article Has the Arab Spring Failed? is about the turmoil in the Middle East and how there are thousands of people dying from protests and wars. In countries like Egypt, and Libya, there are dictators who have been ruling for 20 years. I feel, yes it has failed.

                See, countries in the Middle East do not have presidents like the United States and Canada has, and many other countries. They have dictators. A dictator is a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession. The article stated, "Security forces used armored vehicles, bulldozers, tear gas, bird shot, live ammunition, and snipers to raze encampments of protesters who supported the deposed Islamist dictator." This act killed thousands of Egyptians in Cairo. The dictator then stood down. "The confrontation lasted more than 12 hours and turned parts of Cairo into a war zone. More than 600 people were killed and close to 4,000 injured." This shows that spring in the Middle East has defiantly failed. And this crisis is not only happening in Egypt. It's happening in Tunisa, Isreal, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Egypt, and Yemen.

             This crisis in the Middle East connects to me personally. This connects to me personally because I'm from the Middle East, I'm from Yemen. I am glad to be living in America, my country is a living battlefield right now (Yemen). I'm soooooo glad we have a president, and a great one!