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Egypt is a foreign country, belonging to its people. They get to choose, regardless of the consequences to us. We simply ought to be prepared for the worst and refrain from poking our nose into their affairs.
Exactly. People need to stop acting like they know what's best for others.
This is great news in the sense that the longer this lingered, the more unrest we would've witnessed.
I'm glad this is over and I wish egyptians the best.
Well they threw out "our" dictator.
Do we have another one prepped and in the wings ready to take over ?
"Our?" As in the US made Mubarak VP in 1980 and then had Sadat assassinated in 1981, or by "our" are you saying the US has a diplomatic relationship with the recognized and legitimate leader of a sovereign nation? Your second sentence would seem to imply the former rather than the latter. For the sake of your credibility, not to mention your sanity, I certainly hope it is the latter rather than the former.
"Our?" As in the US made Mubarak VP in 1980 and then had Sadat assassinated in 1981, or by "our" are you saying the US has a diplomatic relationship with the recognized and legitimate leader of a sovereign nation? Your second sentence would seem to imply the former rather than the latter. For the sake of your credibility, not to mention your sanity, I certainly hope it is the latter rather than the former.
And we gave billions in foreign aid...did we follow up to see that it actually went to the people ?
And we champion human rights issues all over the world..did we follow up with what went on in Egypt ?
Yeah..we kep "diplomatic" relations with Egypt and we also paid plenty $$$ to keep our interests safe over there.
I didn't mean my post to say we put Mubarak in office but that we propped up his regime over the years with plenty of money and turned our eye to the corruptness and human rights issues.
Let me see if I got this right. They exchange one dictator for another dictator, and you think this is a "good thing?"
Glitch,
Yes, to some on these threads it IS a good thing. That's because the old dictator was a friend of the US and the new one wouldn't be.
Why do they consider that good? Because the more hostile governments that are in the area, according to this view, the more likely the US will be weakened and pushed out of the area.
This outlook is of course based on the opinion that the US has no vital interests there that need to be defended .
Now we wait and see how quickly our administration forms a team to fly over to Egypt to "help" them form a new government under our guidance of course.
How many bags of money will it take to buy our friendship of their next government ?
Yeah I'm pretty one sided on this because that is the way the US operates.
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