Young Egyptians in the crowd were shouting "We are free!" Are they? Will they be? For now at least the army is in charge. To me that doesn't sound good. I know Egypt hasn't been a free republic they way the West knows them to be, but I never heard the American media celebrating the potential birth of a military dictatorship before, but they did today. They were downright ecstatic. This looks like a step backwards to me, but what do I know? My Pinto got wrecked so they gave me a Yugo. Let's celebrate!
What if the Muslim Brotherhood becomes the ruling political party? They've already killed two Egyptian presidents and they're very cozy with Hammas, and about 4 of 5 Egyptians think Hammas is O.K. To call them peaceful and tolerant is really, really, stretching it. Is that progress?
Ladies, what do you think about that? Why do I hear almost no women speaking on this subject? It's as if it's too horrible for Western women to think about the fact there are hundreds of millions of women in dozens of countries who have no rights and must live under their husband's thumb like it's 800 A.D. because of their nation's religion and customs. Instead, they pretend they don't exist while voting for people who help these Islamist types. Talk about head-scratchers! Islamist types don't believe in equal opportunity for women. Not by a long shot!
This is the sort of thing that makes me believe the mainstream press is anti-Semitic. Imagine if it were the other way around. Israel has the same president for 30 years, he becomes very unpopular, and protesters in the streets demand his immediate resignation. So he steps down, leaving the military in charge, and the most radical right-wing party in Israel looks like it will take over. Can you imagine the press cheering for that? I can't. That's why I can't escape thinking the press and this administration are Jew haters, or Israel haters at the very least.
Apparently they're not thinking about the fact Egypt controls the Suez canal, which is critical to both regional and worldwide trade. The implications are very far-reaching. The most obvious would be the price of gas escalating to several times what it costs now if radical Islamists gain control of the Suez canal. That is, of course, if we stick to our foolish policy of not allowing the expansion of domestic oil production, but that's a subject for another time.
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