A final view from Egypt: The long-awaited election that wasn’t
June 25, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
The weekend of June 16-17 was supposed to see the choosing of a democratically elected president in Egypt. This event was to be the culmination of a year of political excitement initiated by the 25th of January revolution and the sacking of Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year regime.
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Like someone smarter than me said, Egypt isn’t a country with a military, it’s a military with a country. The thing about a revolution is that you have to have a replacement ready to take over when you’re finished overthrowing people. Otherwise things get real quiet real fast, like the author is describing, and things go back to the way they were because that’s all there is. The revolution in Egypt was a bad idea poorly executed.
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I can’t see the Muslim Brotherhood as a viable version of hope and change.
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The military who control Egypt (and have for a very long time) will decide what role the Muslim Brotherhood plays in Egypt’s future. Talk is cheap. So are bullets.
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