Troops and tanks locked down the capital of this tiny Gulf kingdom after riot police swinging clubs and firing tear gas smashed into demonstrators, many of them sleeping, in a pre-dawn assault Thursday that uprooted their protest camp demanding political change. Medical officials said four people were killed.
Now America needs to condemn this violence in the strongest possible terms and work in the UN to sanction Bahrain for their actions. Whenever peaceful dissent is crushed like this then the nation should be brought to task for going the the truncheon instead of the negotiating table. One way America can show its dissasitfaction is this:
Tiny Bahrain is a pillar of Washington's military framework in the region. It hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, which is a critical counterbalance to Iran. Bahrain's rulers and their Arab allies depict any sign of unrest among their Shiite populations as a move by neighboring Shiite-majority Iran to expand its clout in the region.
Draw up a plan to move the 5th Fleet to another site like Qatar or something.They shouldn't be getting our jobs and aid if they are massacring their people who are peaceably dissenting.
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