The emergence of the Islamists in the Middle East seems a fact we have to deal with. They intend to govern their countries following the Quran, an old Arabic poem without an economic idea. Matthew Yglesias writes in Slate:
"On the past couple of occasions when I'd had the opportunity to speak to Muslim Brotherhood officials from different Arab countries, I'd always been struck be the incredibly lack of policy thinking on these kind of banal issues of growth and economic management. Oftentimes you seem to see an assumption that there was no issue beyond the corruption of the incumbent rulers."I dont know if no economic ideas is good or bad for a country. The Communists based their regimes on a economic text, The Capital, and ended in poverty. Egypt under Mubarrak had reached stability and growth, the new regime will bring instability and chaos. A Bangla Desh on the Nile. It is neither good for us.
6 comments:
It won't be good for them either.
Anon.
I can't stop my tears...My heart bleeds for them...
A Bangladesh without the Nile would be more like it, given the rain patterns. The Salafists and the MB must be a tad dissapointed with the results. Their game plan was to hold the balance of power and make life a misery for whatever hapless coalition comes along. They thought they could get through life declaiming - Islam is the solution; the Queeran is our blueprint. Let them figure out how to feed 80 million people with stones.
Ivan
Eighty million? It's going to one hundred and eighty.
Anon.
Eighty million? It's going to one hundred and eighty.
Anon.
Not if Egypt parliament starves their 80 million like Kim Jon Il starved 3 million North Koreans to death!
Egypt re-eductation camps, anyone?
To run concentration camps, one needs brains, the bureaucratic apparatus and the ideological fervour to match. Which seems to explain why the Europeans and Chinese were rather good at it. The Muslims would rather steal your women and properties. Small mercies I suppose.
Ivan
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