Global Issues – Family Council

Thoughts on the Middle East Revolutions

Oct 25, 2011JerryCurrent Events, Global IssuesEgypt, Gadhafi, Guest Post, Libya, Middle East, Syria, Tunisia

The following is a guest post from Adrianne Redding. Adrianne is currently studying Political Science at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.

Gadhafi is dead.

Syria is still embroiled in conflict.

The people of Yemen are always protesting.

Egypt won their fight against Mubarak.

Tunisia, the country that started the chain reaction, completed their revolution almost a year ago.

The unrest that is growing in the Middle East will have lasting effects, no matter which way the revolutions flow.

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The World is Shrinking

The following is a guest post from Adrianne Redding. Adrianne is currently studying Political Science at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.

They say that no man is an island. For that matter, in this day and age, no country is an island either. Globalization tends to divide conservatives and liberals from one another. As a political conservative myself, I used to think that any degree of globalization had to mean giving up our national sovereignty or of bowing to the United Nations or another international governmental organization. But I have learned that globalization, or at least a strong global awareness, can be much simpler, much more beneficial to everyone than the extreme picture I previously had in my mind.