Posted on 02/13/2011 7:47:03 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt with an iron fist since 1981, became synonymous with despotism and corruption. Despite weeks of recent protests, he refused to hand over power. But on Friday, Egypt's vice president announced that Mubarak was stepping down and turning power over to the military. While much of the attention has focused on Mubarak's dictatorship, most Americans don't realize that he'd actually won international kudos for his handling of the economy.
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Yes, he handled the economy so well, that he gets to walk away a multi-billionaire, while most of Egypt dwells in tenth century squalor.
The pedophile pirate, Mohammed, owns much of the blame for this. As Winston Churchill said, “no greater retrograde force” exists on Earth.
Like the Shah of Iran, the media has convinced us that this guy was a terrible, oppressive dictator. Well, what preceded him was worse, and what follows him will be worse. So maybe neither Mubarak nor the Shah were really bad.
The democratic revolution in Egypt? Look at the demographics: 90% of the women in Egypt have gone through female genital cutting. It is a radical, fundamentalist Islamic population. They have been held in check by Mubarak for 30 years.
Here comes the flood.
Also, I don't think even these numbers would be this good if it were not for massive aid from the US and other nations. As to education, it seems to me that Islam does not want an educated population. Thinkers and Islam seems to be an oil-water thingie to me.
Something is terribly wrong with that whole culture.
Correct.
I wonder if they will eventually blow up historical non-muslim cultural sites like the Taliban did. They see anything non-muslim as a religious threat that must be erased.
Just wondering- Where is Mubarak now or will he be found alive in dirt hole in the ground.
Exactly. Good post, and right on the mark.
Our government's idea of foreign aid is to take from the poor in a rich country and give it the rich in a poor country...This has all but left America dead on the floor.
Our government is gang raping us!
Enough!
The world is not a homeowners associations and we are not the association president.
All ME rulers are billionaires from their stints in office.
Mubarak actually was attempting to modernize and de-socialize the Egyptian economy, and his son was expected to do so much more aggressively.
The lack of clear title to property in Egypt (and probably many traditional societies) is indeed one of its biggest problems. There was some suggestion of creating a massive legal project to aid people in getting title to “their” property, or possibly even some sort of government declaration awarding title to certain lands as a starting point.
One of the other problems is that we are seeing only Cairo and hearing only about its problems; most of the rest of the Egyptian population is rural or lives in smaller population centers, and these problems are even more acute there.
I have no knowledge of that, so I cannot exactly agree (or disagree), but I will say that if Egypt were possibly transitioning to an even better, more enlightened, more Western leader, and if THAT was a contributing factor to the "democratic" uprising, it probably tells us a lot about what the "man in the street" was trying to avoid.
The Muslim Brotherhood may have switched into high gear because they saw Mubarak's son as a powerful foe. Isn't that a lovely thought?
> All ME rulers are billionaires from their stints in office.
Agreed.
The next tyrant to occupy the presidential palace will likewise enrich himself.
However, I surmise that the new tyrant will be a Mohammedan fanatic and will turn the entire country back a thousand years, besides ramping up the unspeakably cruel treatment of Christians and Jews.
That is a problem around the world. We are blessed to live in the west where private property laws were established centuries ago.
Thank you for recognizing his son Gamal. Gamal was western educated and believed that the government owned too much and wanted to see more capitalism!!! In fact, under his leadership in the NDP, Egypt was finally seeing a middle class being built within the private sector. This kind of thinking ruffled many feathers, especially those within the military.
Oh and don’t forget, if you want to talk about poverty.......Egypt is a socialist country! Wherever their is socialism there is a high rate of poverty!
Well, the cult of demons called Islam will be irradicated lickidy split...after Jesus does his works upon his return.
Exactly. And wherever there is socialism, there are political leaders who have accumulated way, way too much money. This is because all wealth passes through the government in a socialist society.
I fear you are right. I hope the Egyptians are enjoying their brief respite before true darkness falls.
> I fear you are right. I hope the Egyptians are enjoying
> their brief respite before true darkness falls.
I pray that I’m wrong.
The people in Iran rejoiced to see the Shah leave, and they looked forward to a democratic republic, with freedoms for all.
But their joy was short-lived, for what they got in place of the Shah was a much, much worse tyranny, with repression and torture and murder and executions orders of magnitude greater than anything the Shah ever did.
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