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Egypt’s Military: Doing What Germany’s Should Have Done in 1933
And in case you don't know what Egypt is doing, read this:
Egypt arrests 1,000 Brotherhood members overnight
Ladies and gentlemen, we have us a civil war in Egypt. Islamists on one side. Everyone else on the other. It's happened before:
Algerian Civil War
Will Egypt Slide into Civil War? Algeria Offers Some Clues
Egypt's revolutionaries should heed lessons from Algeria's bloody civil war
How Egypt’s Turmoil Echoes Algeria’s Bloody Civil War
Labels: democracy, history, Islamism, Muslim Brotherhood
posted by Louise at 9:50 am
2 Comments:
"...In any case, as Jean Kirkpatrick taught us long ago, an authoritarian regime is always preferable to a totalitarian one."
Lesser of the evils, eh? Which implies that Mubarek & Co. were better than Morsi & Co. For that matter, the Shah & Co. in Iran were definitely better than the Mullah regime. So far, the "Arab Spring" has been a vanishingly small growing season for freedom and democracy.
"So far, the "Arab Spring" has been a vanishingly small growing season for freedom and democracy."
Pessimist. Do you remember the Prague Spring? How many years did the Czechs have to wait for Communism to fall? Dust off your history books and look at how long the French waited from the days of the revolution until they had a functioning democracy? They chopped off their king's head, then got themselves the Reign of Terror, and finally an Emperor, three of them, as a matter of fact.
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