Who owns the Middle East revolutions, and what are they about?

Colonel Gaddafi has now almost taken back Libya. Bengazhi has almost a million people, but the colonel has the means to keep them down by way of tanks and bomber aircraft.A lot can be executed too, and the rest given the choice of hailing Gaddafi or ending their lives, much like the old Roman cesarian cult. The colonel knew probably well what he was doing, because the no-fly-zone had no way of passing the security coucil in the UN. If China were to allow the priciple of foreign intervention into internal affairs, it would certainly see problems at home too. It probably did'nt help Erdogan in Turkey's application process into the EU to endorse Gaddafi, although Hillary Clinton did the same thing before Gaddafi started to shoot on his own people. As long as Gaddafi keeps on using military equipment sold to him by western industries, and soldiers trained by western special forces, he will have the upper hand versus the rebel opposition, and obviously he receives a healthy supply of young african men who will work for him for a modest salary. The freezing of his bank accounts abroad obviously has little effect as far as mercenaries go.

But that which happened in Bahrain was even more disturbing, when the Saudi-Arabian royals sent in troops to help uphold law and order. The problem here is that instead of the inspiring common values expressed by protesters to foreign newsreporters, the government and the Fahd-dynasty view this as a conflict between shiite and sunni-branches of Islam, and bring religious arguments into the discussion. This is a total deviation, and clearly demontrates how the ruling families fail to understand the scope and target for the popular protests. It might even be a very well planned strategy to take focus of the appearant lack of civil rights not least in Saudi-Arabia, but also in Bahrain.

The US. is tiptoeing as quietly as it can in these shallow waters, as the Saudi-Arabian establishment simply is too big to fail, as it were. Or too rich, and far too dominant in the oil market. No one expects the cloaked royals to pay attention to a nice motion from the US that they didn't like what they saw. The Saudis even rebuked the US, calling their step-in at Bahrain internal affairs, and not for anyone else to mingle with.