Protestor Shot Dead in Bahrain

Clearly you have lived there for longer than I, and have a much more insightful and bombastic understanding of the situation.

Clearly your opening claim didn't stand which makes your period of residence irrelevant in that regard.

you ask a lot of questions with the aim of knocking others down

The aim of questions is to get answers, if the answer knocks a statement down you should question the initial statement not attack the question.

rarely do you proffer an opinion of your own, based on anything other than your demand to be 'right'.

I am not claiming I am right, I am saying you are wrong on that part.
You chose a measure which you thought demonstrated how Bahrain was better than two other countries, yet it was clearly false as both bad countries you chose as examples had the same "good" measure.

It's not pointed reasoning, or clever discourse or logical thinking.

Bahrain does not have a nice regime, if someone wants to use an example to show that it is somehow better then some other nasty regimes then logic and reason would suggest you provide an example that works.

I mean seriously you are warning of another possible shia theocracy like Iran, but Iran has state education and healthcare too...it simply isn't a workable measure to use.

I know you'll disagree and probably offer counter's and all of that jazz

Counter's you mean like counterpoints to what someone else has written?
I could have sworn I also countered your bit about the reforms as they have not been implimented, do you not consider that a valid point regarding what you had writen?