With a totalitarian party to vote for!
“The regime today is the same one that was founded in 1952. This is still the Nasserist regime. I was hoping this revolution would bring something different, that we could return to the liberal tradition that existed before Nasser destroyed it. Egypt had a historic opportunity to revive its liberal past, but the moment has passed. The military didn’t encourage that path, the Muslim Brotherhood jumped over everybody to manipulate the process, and the liberal secular forces retreated.”
sandmonkey.org
For a viewpoint from a blogger who’s actually been living in Egypt and blogging since 2005.
It is never the people you want in power who want power worse than the people you don’t want in power. -Old Indian Saying
Posted by: tim in vermont at September 12, 2011 3:45 PM
Would that have sounded better in…let’s say, Cherokee? 😉
Lets face it. Some people are born wanting to be a rug or slave.
Hoping they can be top slave tasker.
But golly, who ever could have seen this coming? I mean it’s like right out the blue, with no warning or anything.
I’m sure Libya will turn out way better, though.
It will be a disaster for Israel if Obama remains president beyond November 2012. This coalition of Islamist nations is coming together quite gradually and can probably be contained by a stronger U.S. administration. But we can’t be sure they won’t strike before then.
“I was hoping this revolution would bring something different, that we could return to the liberal tradition that existed before Nasser destroyed it.”
Heh heh.
The irony of ironies is that “liberal tradition that existed before Nasser destroyed it” existed in an Egypt ruled by an obese and decadent king.
Obese and decadent he might have been but old Farouk more or less left the Egyptians to themselves and tolerated both the Coptic Christian and Egyptian Jewish communities (both groups represented the very bedrock of liberalism in the country).
On the whole, perhaps being ruled by a distant and dissolute monarch who spent most of his time perched at the gambling tables in Monte Carlo beat the hell out of the close-up and personal rule of the Muslim Brotherhood or a corrupt, Nasserite military?