Egypt
Journalists
talk a lot about violence in Egypt. And the up to date question is:
“How has the Democracy been high jacked by the military?” (that
really mean: “shame on them”).
In
America (USA) we want everything to go fast and well. But on another hand, if
you think of France's history. Year 1789: the big revolution, lead by the
people … has been followed by various unstable, biased governments during
the age of the “terror” that, just for revenge, good conscience,
and the addiction to blood, killed a maximum of aristocrats.
After
which, maybe because they wanted a rest and to quiet the situation,
the French gave themselves … what? an Emperor!!! Napoleon the
First.
If
we compare the 2 situations, Egypt is doing pretty well at growing
up, and much faster than the French only 3 centuries ago. Of course
now is the communication revolution that speeds up every thing … the
good and the bad … At the time, France had the diehard, fed up with the kings and the "ancient regime"
revolutionaries, now Egypt has its religious fundamentalists, and still plenty
of time... by comparison.
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