Another week has gone by and the Egyptian protesters are going at it with more passion than ever! If there was any doubt as to where the U.S. should stand, there should be no doubt now. Mubarak's action today makes his strategy obvious. Blame other countries (really the U.S.), delay as long as possible and hope that the protesters become violent and give him excuse to use lethal force. The protesters have shown great discipline so far of being peaceful. This is so even though they don't have a Gandhi to lead them. At this point they cannot afford to lose because if the protests stop, many of them will be targeted by the secret police afterward. So they must fight on without provoking the army.
Having seen Mubarak not so subtly blame the U.S. for interfering, Obama must go against him. He needs to signal to the army that if Mubarak survives, the enormous aids that the U.S. gives to the Egyptian army will stop immediately. The people of Egypt have spoken loud and clear and if we don't support them now, we will be look upon as being hypocritical in the Middle East and rest of the world.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
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Welcome back to your blog. I hope your technical difficulties are over. A lot has happened since you wrote this blog and I am quite surprised at how peaceful everything went, with an exception to a few things here and there. The Lara Logan incident comes to mind and I've heard some things that were supportive of her assault which surprises me. I read somewhere that she got what she had coming because she did not cover up and that she was flaunting herself and that she should have known better.
ReplyDeleteWow, with thinking like that, no wonder people were expecting things to be far worse in Egypt.
So what happens next? For one, the other revolutions and protests happening on the heels of the revolution in Egypt are actually interesting to see. I just hope that these revolts and protests lead to something good and not more violence.
Sounds like the new government in Egypt will honor its friendship with the U.S. and that will help stabilize the region.
Hard to believe Mubarak was in power for so long. Was he elected after Sadat's assassination or was just next in line?
-LBOATM
It certainly is not shocking to see a female journalist attacked in a mob situation. Anderson Cooper was attacked a few days earlier. I don't know how many people were involved but it only takes a few to do this. With hundreds of thousands of people it is not surprising that there would be bad guys among them.
ReplyDeleteIt is difficult to predict what is going to happen next in the rest of the Middle East. In fact it is not sure that Egypt will turn out ok since it is controlled right now by the military which controls a quarter of the businesses in the country. All I know is that supporting the dictators will never turn out well in the long run. Witness Vietnam (French occupation), Iran (supported the Shah for years), Iraq (supported Hussein because he was an enemy of Iran). We supported Mubarak because of his keeping the peace with Israel. It just made us look hypocritical. By the way, I think he was vp to Sadat and was never elected in any free election.
I am following the Wisconsin situation on the internet with Wisconsinreporter.com, where the Republican governor is trying to get rid of contracts with the government unions and put an end to collective bargaining rights of the workers. This will have a big impact, I think, in many other states because most of them are in budget crisis. I will probably have comments on this in a couple of days.