This whole ARAB SPRING was nice and very promising but I am
afraid trying to democratize a nation and a people that really have no idea
what that means will be difficult and Egypt is a prime example.
A lot of people are having problems with the concept that
the Morsi government was a democratically elected government. Deposing him and
letting the military takeover is not how this should play out.
I will admit that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood started
out OK but then, as many predicted, started turning things back into a
theocracy (Iran) a religious dictatorship which appears to have been their goal
all along.
Bush introduced democracy to Iraq and look where that stands.
The slaughter continues… the sectarian conflict is not dying down; the country
is more divided than ever; a civil war is sure to follow.
Egypt is in the same boat; it has the religious radicals
trying to impose an Islamic state but it also has tons of young people raised
on the internet with knowledge of how life could really be and they are not
going to stand for some religious dictatorship telling them what to do, how to
behave and what to wear…another civil war?
Syria’s civil war is a mess with just too many factions. I
don’t think a clear winner in that war is possible.
Dictators kept the peace at least and made the trains run on
time but democracy is a grand ideal and something that probably has to happen
for the Middle East people to finally emerge out of the darkness and get to
enjoy some of this much too short life of ours.
Is this the only way forward? We fought a war with England
and then we had a very, very bloody civil war, maybe not about religion but
about a way of life. We survived and we prospered; maybe Egypt and the rest
have to suffer for a while before things get better.
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