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Two carriages of a rusting, decrepit train part from the tracks and collide with a stationary cargo train, killing 19 young security recruits. Another train ploughs into a school bus in a village in Upper Egypt, killing 51, mostly children. An eight-storey building collapses in Alexandria, ending the lives of 17.
Such tragedies in the past few months have made painfully clear the degraded state of Egypt's buildings and infrastructure.
They also highlight the difficulties faced by Mohammed Morsi, under pressure to deliver on his presidential election promise of an Egyptian renaissance.
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Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, have blamed the country's problems on decades of stagnation and corruption under the regime of Hosni Mubarak. The Brotherhood's opponents have blamed the prime minister, Hisham Qandil, and are eager to use the recent catastrophes in their bid to supplant the government's authority.
Typical. Sounds familiar. Make unrealistic promises, blame others when there are problems.
Typical. Sounds familiar. Make unrealistic promises, blame others when there are problems.
Question, if long standing problems that developed over decades and presided over by a new government, it is some how wrong to point out when these problems arose and it is somehow unconscionable that these long existing problems are not somehow miraculously resolved over a few months or years of a government that has promised to address?
Is that what we are suppose to take away from this argument?
These are just examples, but there are numerous situations across the US yearly. Who do we want to blame?
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