Thread: Tunisia: Arab Spring turns to Arab Winter

Originally Posted by taxexile

They got rid of the colonial jackboots and psychotic dictators that have been the only thing keeping the primitive and untrustworthy camel shaggers from self destruction for the past 3 hundred years

Something I wasn't aware of until recently was that in the 19th Century Tunisia declared itself bankrupt in the hope that one of the colonial powers would take it over and pay the bills. I guess that doesn't fit in well with the story we're told of despotic colonial oppressors.