Another wonderful Middle Eastern country ruled by oligarchy, or relgious leader, or military leader, or just plain dictator. People in the middle east are tired or being talked down to and told to be quiet and behave and let the leaders and their inner cirlce do whatever they want. Libya got free. Egypt is in a battle between the old, secular military, and the new, let me guess, impose a religious set of ideolgical rules on everybody, Islamsits. Iran is in the hands of a religious dictartoship which has killed all elections, all freedoms, all justice. Saudia Arabia is a backwards, midieval society ruled by an oligarchy and backed by relgious extremeist who impose a secret police and kangaroo courts. Iraq is a mess. Bahrain is a mess. Yemen is a mess. Can anybody over there figure out that nothing much is working unless you never care about making things better and living in some long gone bye fantasy world is the future. Hmmmm....kind of sounds like what our political leaders and parties are offering us in the good old USA

Bahrain sticks out as the one dictatorship whose people are truly stuck in the middle. The US is afraid of offending Saudi Arabia, whose dictator dominates the dictator in Bahrain. It was the Saudis and Emeratis who sent in the tanks and army to murder Bahrainis with US approval. The Saudis spend billions for the latest US weapons and our government uses that as the carrot on the stick. Trouble is, they never seem to apply the stick. The Iranian dictatorship gets cast in the role of boogeyman and everyone is happy. Sounds a bit like the novel 1984 to me.

Americans are addicted to Saudi oil (as long as it lasts!) and both the US and Saudis love all those modern weapons going to the dictators in the Gulf. Billions of dollars are being made by "defense" contractors. In the meantime, the citizens of Bahrain just get shafted. All they've ever wanted is a representative government but the brutal repression from the regime has forced a realization they can never get anything close to democracy from the AlKhalifa dynasty. Once again, a classic oligarchy of power, money and influence that uses and abuses their own people for profit.

When will the American government actually live up to all those beautiful words about democracy and self-determination, or is that just PR? The Bahraini people are pretty fed up with the US and Saudi Arabia determining policy that thinks only about an aggressive stance toward Iran, whose people are suffering horrors from their own regime, and nothing for the lives being stolen by the Bahraini and Saudi regimes.

Now that the Saudis in the Eastern Province (where all the OIL comes from and closest to Bahrain geographically) are also rising up against their dictator, The US government may have to adjust their attitude toward the dissenters in the Gulf or find out that they are the biggest losers after these people achieve their own freedom through another bloody process. Then where will the US Navy park all those ships in the 5th Fleet?

Possible human rights violations. Sure.

Let me tell you, when there are 50 protesters dead in 6 months, there's been human rights violations. It's a far cry from the thousands losing their lives in Syria, but still a miserable state of affairs.

I hope that someday my country will be willing to stand up to all these crooks.

I hope the Rebles are successful if the US wants to send aid send it here first. Why does the US support Kings anyway did not the founders of our country fight against a king. I wish good luck to the rebles here and hope that they have success in changing their country.

Bahrain is exactly the reverse of Syria.

Sunni Saudis & co sent their forces to crush the peaceful protests of Shiites in Bahrain.

After this bravery, they started meddling in Syria.

Sunni Saudis and co sent a human rights observer team to Syria. Saudis are best in the world at double standards and hypocrisy: the human rights team was led by a Sudanese Gen responsible for genocides of 300000 Christians in Darfur!

Then they outsourced their dirty jobs to NATO "ally" Islamic fundamentalist Ergodan of Turkey! He and his party danced as directed by Sunni Saudis!

Lectures, dances of even of Ramadan style are not working. So they are trying to outsource again their dirty jobs on Syria and Iran the US.

Compare all languages of the UN, human rights groups, media and others on Syria and Bahain!

If atrocities and barbarism on girls, children and women are the criteria, then the most despotic, autocratic and bigoted Sunni Saudi ruler with his 5000 princes and princesses, Kuwaiti, UAE and other Arab League Sunni rulers and their rich sheiks are the biggest culprits in the history.

Through the Muslim immoral trafficking gangs, these barbarians have assembled all varieties of poor and helpless girls and women from all over the world in their harems and brothels.

In killing of opponents again, these people have established world records.

If the US, Britain and others support such Sunni barbarians and beasts who treat girls and women as cheap sex slaves, then one can only conclude that Saudis, oil companies and their lobbyists determine what to see, how to lecture and where and when to act.

Rest like “human rights”, “killing of children and women”, “militants”, “terrorists”, “WMDs”, “chemical weapons” and so on are a pure hoax.

Similar hoaxes were played each time before Iraqi wars on directions of Saudi, oil companies and their lobbyists.

Now none of them are looking into Iraq, where at least a million have been killed and devastated.

Bahrain is not in their map either!