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   Rockngolfer said, 6 months ago

   I have been looking for this opportunity.
   Okay, Morsai of the Muslim Brotherhood was duly elected to be President.
   He was opposed by judges from Mubarak’s regime.
   So he temporarily declared more power until a new constitution was drawn up.
   The new constitution was written in a 16 hour session a couple of weeks ago.
   Now, the new constitution needs to be voted on? Ratified?
   As Rachael Maddow would ask, what have I said that is wrong?
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   narrowminded said, 6 months ago

   This is what fundamental transformation looks like.
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   Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

   The new king is the same as the old king. Long live the king. Maybe it’s the people that is the problem, not the leader.
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   JohnnyDiego said, 6 months ago

   This is a country that has no experience with democracy. It will take decades to work out. We should expect the same everywhere in the region.
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   Chillbilly said, 6 months ago

   @Rockngolfer

   Here’s what is wrong …
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   The situation in Egypt is incredibly complicated and involves more than just two factions. Notably, their military and internal police divisions are slivered into multiple groups that are at violent odds. Jockeying for control of these groups is making people nervous about who will ultimately control them.
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   If we look at it through the typical good guy vs. bad guy black-and-white manichean lens that most American media present, we’ll never properly understand.
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   masterskrain said, 6 months ago

   Seems that the whole country is in de-Nile!
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   Omnius said, 6 months ago

   Egyptians must not have heard of the saying “be careful what you wish for, for you may get it and it may not be what you thought it would be”. Look at the new boss, same as the old boss. I’m just waiting for the expected military coup to depose Morsi, just surprised the generals haven’t pulled the trigger on that yet.
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   Dredpiraterobt$ said, 6 months ago

   I’m very happy for the Egyptian people. They might not know what they do want but they do know what they don’t want and that’s more see…
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   What they don’t want is to be the next Iran. They don’t want to be Saudi Arabia. They don’t want to be Afghanistan.
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   They want to be Dubai, Abu Dhabi… They want to be a prosperous nation that honors it’s past etc etc etc…
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   But the problems in Egypt go WAY back! They have entire cultures based upon the pecking order of living in the garbage dump!
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   There are decades of work to be done educating, not everybody, there are plenty of well educated and averagely educated and even poorly educated, but they have a whole bunch of multi generational families that have had ZERO education.
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   Some of what they call “Business as usual” we call corruption, but that’s because we have a different way of coming to a contract. There the contract means nothing and the terms are negotiable up until the money is accepted and the service or good is delivered. Not the way I like to do business, but it works for them and it is “Free Market Capitalism” on steroids.
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   Rockngolfer said, 6 months ago

   Morsi has an engineering background and some of his education was in the USA. He says things that upset politicians here.
   I don’t think we have much choice except to let the Egyptians sort it out among themselves.
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    mickey1339 said, 6 months ago

    @Rockngolfer

    “As Rachael Maddow would ask, what have I said that is wrong?”

    What you have stated is not wrong. What isn’t there is his action to give himself almost dictatorial powers that were not part of the constitution or his stated election mandate. The cartoon refers to that, his dictatorial status is seen as not being much different than Mubarek. The constitution presented is based on Sharia law and obviously heavily supported by the Muslim Brotherhood.
    Hilary met with the original democracy movement and tried to get them to organize into a political body and become part of the election and the ruling government. The divisive factions ruled and they never put together a political party to compete in the elections. Once more chaos rules.
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    filozzrd said, 6 months ago

    Have we forgotten that our CIA redirected their captives to Egypt for “rendition” that could happen only there?
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    Justice22 said, 6 months ago

    @filozzrd

    We also sent them to Syria, a staunch ally.
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    Rickapolis said, 6 months ago

    The Pharaohs must be spinning in their tombs. Assuming any are still in tombs.
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    Rymlianin said, 6 months ago

    Democracy: 51 wolves and 49 sheep deciding what’s for dinner.
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    T.E. Lawrence said, 6 months ago

    I miss Anwar Sadat.
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