Feel a bit obliged to comment on the current situation in North Africa/The Middle-East. Not that I have much to say since it took almost everyone by surprise. All in all a good thing and pretty much the only way to assure a decent democracy is if the people themselves cast their shackles and demand emancipation. I might appear cold-hearted, but the rest of the world should involve itself as little as possible, at least EU and USA. Why? To make sure that the people themselves don't feel that we altered their path of development and gives believers of the old regime an excuse to way they lost. We saw it in Germany after the First World War when the nazis used the beliefs that they had been stabbed in their back by their own government. A government none of them believed in. We see it in Iraq and Afghanistan where the stubborn belief of the Western world of "shake-and-bake democracies" still aren't working after almost 10 years. Democracy can only be taken, never given (and once again I see myself in the role of a realist instead of the idealist I wish I would be).
That was my more pessimistic view, hopefully they will raise from the ashes and enter a more peaceful and stable world. It also seems to have effects beyond the Middle-East. According to one article in SvD this could be a major set-back for the North Koreans since these fallen dictators was the ones keeping their export industries floating. With the current situation of a sick and dying leader and an economic crash, we might get rid of the worst dictatorship in the world. Not that there is any good dictatorship (or is it? Could have a long discussion on that matter in a philosophical way), but there is different levels of hell, if you know what I mean.
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