The United Nations with the strong assistance of the USA must instill peacekeepers and bring a mission to vaccinate the people and seek economic interests to return stability to it's government.
The United States can expect to find such scenarios over and over since the Trump administration did nothing to support new and burgeoning democracies, because, "It cost too much."
Protecting democracy costs nothing especially in comparison to the alternative of war. A mission to secure the streets of Tunisia with food, clean water, medical treatment, and vaccinations is not any kind of cost at all. At a time in the not-so-distant past, the USA has enormous stocks of grain produced by American farmers to serve exactly this purpose.
There is no reason for this level of unrest in Tunisia. No reason. It is a country the USA could easily call an ally in a part of the world where the USA is short on sincere allies in a democracy. Hilary Clinton knew exactly the price that needed to be paid to ensure a stronger Tunisia and stability in the region.
By the Editiorial Board
“LET ME underscore the importance of the United States (click here) continuing to lead in the Middle East, North Africa and around the world,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday in testimony to Congress. “When America is absent, especially from unstable environments, there are consequences. Extremism takes root, our interests suffer and our security at home is threatened.”
Much of the news coverage of Ms. Clinton’s appearances before Senate and House committees focused on her jousting with Republicans over responsibility for the attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya. But we were struck by the forcefulness and clarity with which she made the case that the United States faces a “very serious, ongoing” and “strategic” threat in North Africa from al-Qaeda affiliates and other jihadists — one that she argued demands a vigorous and comprehensive response.
“We are in for a struggle,” Ms. Clinton said. “But it is a necessary struggle. We cannot permit northern Mali to become a safe haven. . . . We’ve got to have a better strategy....
The struggle in Tunisia is a direct threat to our allies in Europe. This is nothing that can or should be ignored. There need to be missions to this region for the sole purpose of providing aid to the people in whichever need they have. When democracy fails to answer the simple needs of people, it loses to a form of government that seeks control of the people and is an asset to anti-democratic powers.
Assisting Tunisia is not an option. This is paramount to protecting our democracy and the interests of allies. The people wanted freedom, but, when the USA failed to bring about the simple needs of the people at a time when a global pandemic was and is taking lives, we lose. The USA loses on all counts when we are not the backbone of a new and burgeoning democracy.
Don't forget to educate the children. They are the brain trust of the future of Tunisia and we want them to be part of our stability in the world as well.
By Vivian Yee
Cairo - Tunisia’s president (click here) late on Sunday said he was firing the prime minister, suspending Parliament and taking control of the country after large anti-government protests across a nation struggling with deepening health and economic crises.
The power grab by the president, Kais Saied, was seen as a major threat to the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring protests a decade ago. A leading political party, Ennahda, called it “a coup against the Tunisian democracy and its constitution” and “a betrayal of every Tunisian,” urging Mr. Saied to reverse his decisions immediately.
“Tunisia is the only Arab Spring’s success story and that story does not end here,” Ennahda said in a statement. “We call on every international supporter of democracy to come together to speak out immediately against this injustice and call for the immediate restoration of our Parliament.”
Sparked by the self-immolation of a fruit seller protesting brutal treatment at the hands of the police in late 2010, Tunisia’s revolution was the first in the series of Arab Spring uprisings that swept across the Middle East 10 years ago. It is the only country where some of the ideals of revolution have survived: Civil war undid Syria, Libya and Yemen; a counterrevolution reversed Egypt’s attempt at democracy; authoritarian governments quashed protests in others....
The power grab by the president, Kais Saied, was seen as a major threat to the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring protests a decade ago. A leading political party, Ennahda, called it “a coup against the Tunisian democracy and its constitution” and “a betrayal of every Tunisian,” urging Mr. Saied to reverse his decisions immediately.
“Tunisia is the only Arab Spring’s success story and that story does not end here,” Ennahda said in a statement. “We call on every international supporter of democracy to come together to speak out immediately against this injustice and call for the immediate restoration of our Parliament.”
Sparked by the self-immolation of a fruit seller protesting brutal treatment at the hands of the police in late 2010, Tunisia’s revolution was the first in the series of Arab Spring uprisings that swept across the Middle East 10 years ago. It is the only country where some of the ideals of revolution have survived: Civil war undid Syria, Libya and Yemen; a counterrevolution reversed Egypt’s attempt at democracy; authoritarian governments quashed protests in others....
"...I just don't want us to fall backwards...."
Her words are more profound today than ever in USA history. She was ready. She is ready. She would have been a great president. The American people during this election focused on buzz words and never saw the truth standing before them.
