I was a little disappointed that Mohamed Morsi, the American
educated, president of Egypt
would assume dictatorial powers so soon after election and right after handling
the Gaza issue
so well.
Not every country can become a great democracy overnight.
Our history is replete with dictators that unified peoples into unified and
peaceful countries only to have those countries dissolve into unbelievable
bloodletting upon the dictator’s death. I am talking about Yugoslavia and
the dictator Tito.
Some dictators are what we call “benevolent” dictators that
become dictators for the good of the country such as General Pilsudski of Poland .
Italians say that Mussolini may have been a dictator but at least he made the
trains run on time.
But no matter how you slice it a dictator is a dictator and
that is one man rule and is not always for the good of all.
Morsi stresses that he is president of all Egyptians and he
needs the dictatorial powers just for a little while to make sure a
constitution is written…then he will give up his dictatorial powers…famous last
words?
Egyptians do not want to exchange a secular dictator for a
religious dictator which may actually prove worst as he turns the country into an
Iranian type theocracy (religious dictatorship). After all he belongs to the
Muslin Brotherhood who not so long ago, wanted to turn the country into an
Islamic state.
It is hard to trust someone, anyone actually that demands
dictatorial powers even if you feel he is doing it for legitimate reasons; once
he gains those powers he may not want to give them back, such is the
intoxication of absolute power.
The problem in Egypt is that you have a diverse
population with Coptic Christians as well as radical Muslims together with a
very secular young generation; it will be hard to build a democratic type
country but try they must without favoring one side against another.
Here in the United
States people fought like cats and dogs in
our formative stage and we still fight like elephants and donkeys, liberals and
conservatives, religious right against religious left but we all live in peace
as Americans.
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