The disorganized, leaderless, programless mob in the streets is degenerating into looting and burning vandalism. Yet vital services are operating and food is available. Soon the organized forces - the military - will start to move in to stop the bardak (бардак, disorder in Hebrew slang). The Saudi king has expressed its support for Mubarrak. Once more, America have been cought betraying its friends and allies.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Bardak in Egypt
The disorganized, leaderless, programless mob in the streets is degenerating into looting and burning vandalism. Yet vital services are operating and food is available. Soon the organized forces - the military - will start to move in to stop the bardak (бардак, disorder in Hebrew slang). The Saudi king has expressed its support for Mubarrak. Once more, America have been cought betraying its friends and allies.
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Well known aphorism : America - dangerous as a friend, harmless as an enemy.
"Soon the organized forces - the military - will start to move in to stop the bardak.."
What are they waiting for? I have the feeling that if they could have, they would have, already.
I know that it is a uncomfortable feeling watching Egypt fall to pieces right on your border but I'm afraid that your pronouncements have the air of desperation and wishful thinking. The society fell apart so quickly because it was a shaky and rotten edifice, which the slightest breeze could topple.
At some point the US (and Israel and everyone else) has to cut its losses - Mubarrak is probably beyond saving at this point. America will get blamed either way - for clinging to Mubarrak for too long or for not supporting him to the bitter end. Really we had very little to do with it - frankly America sucks at intrigue. If we were smart we would have alternatives to Mubarrak lined up (other than the Muslim Brotherhood)but we don't - this has taken us by surprise as well. One Tunisian vegetable hawker sets himself on fire and the entire Arab world goes up in flames. Go figure.
K
At this stage ElBaradei doing a deal with the Army is probably the best outcome. It will not however solve the underlying problem in Egypt or the larger Arab world which is that they are overpopulated and cannot feed themselves. Without the subsidies from the Americans and the Saudis they would be starving by now.
I didn't realize Hillary Clinton could belly dance.
Anon.
Ask Saddam Hussein how harmless the US is as an enemy. Oh, wait, you can't, we killed him and his sons for good measure. Don't misunderestimate America. Ask Israel whether the US has been a good friend, or Japan or German who were rebuilt from ashes to rich and democratic societies under the American umbrella. Don't fall for bullshit anti-American narratives - they make you stupid.
K
Hillary Clinton's secretarial job pays little and she has to moonlight to maintain her husband.
Also, her belly dance career is a good opportunity for secret Middle East diplomacy, and which I am sure will turn the situation around in no time at all.
Anon.
Without the subsidies from the Americans and the Saudis they would be starving by now.
And that is the real solution to this mess: just cut off foreign aid to all of the anti-American countries in the Mideast. If the Arabs hate America so deeply they can grow their own food instead of eating ours. Having the Arabs turn against us will only make the process easier.
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