I am dying, Egypt, dying
(Mark Anthony)
This is my earth. This is my country. This is my home. I will clean all Egypt when Mubarak will go out.
(Karim Turki, 23, interviewed by Tom Friedman NYT in downtown Cairo)
Give me liberty or give me death.
(A Tahrir Square street chant in Egypt prior to Mubarak's departure)
Egypt with a message
Momentous is an understatement. Mubarak is no more. Now, as governments like to say, the situation will remain “fluid” for some time, within Egypt and throughout the region. But much will likely never be quite the same. Certainly unemployment, corruption, exploitation, inequality and class divisions are found throughout the world....
In the United States, will our Middle East policy of blood, oil and armament subsidies have to be modified? It most definitely is a fluid situation, everywhere.
A brief visit to America
A couple of days ago I received an e-mail from Roy Blunt, Republican Senator from Missouri. I suppose I must have signed some petition about greenhouse gases and the EPA. The senator's e-mail response made me feel like I had just listened to Mubarak promising change and enlightenment. There really isn't any common ground to even have a chat over a good cup of Turkish coffee.
Tax cuts for the rich was of course only the beginning. That stench is already overwhelming. Now we have the vicious anti-women proposals offered by the little ayatollahs in the House of Representatives. Well, we could add stoning; it seems to work well in other parts of the world.
Eric Cantor, the new House Majority Leader, has promised to prevent health care from being funded. But I'm sure he agrees that my tax dollars ought not to go to pay for his health care. After all, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce can pick up the tab if he can't afford to pay for it himself. Why spend so much time pretending anymore.
The world changed and America remained asleep. It is a possible scenario. But struggling to get back to the 19th century is hard work. What would our Founding Fathers have done?
Time to stop signing petitions. As the late historian Howard Zinn once said, “Real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves.”
How will it begin? How might it end? In the United States that is.
Comments
What a weasel. Nothing worse then an ignorant anti-American liberal.
"will our Middle East policy of blood, oil and armament subsidies have to be modified?"
We give money to Egypt just so the Arab animals don't attack Israel again. How does that fit into your brain-dead scenario.
You can thank Bush for the democracy spreading in the Middle East, and you can thank the self hating liberals for making US look bad worldwide with all their anti-American crap.
This screed just shows the level of ignorance and petty jealousy on the left. But I want them to keep screeching so the country can see how clueless and useless they really are.
" What would our Founding Fathers have done?"
We know what they would have done, because they did it. It WILL happen again, our government is an illegal entity now, they have utter contempt for the constitution which puts them in breach of contract. Both parties have done this in unison, and stupid people who still buy into the lie of the left right, red blue garbage, and those who post anonymously are cowards and most of the problem in this country.
The media and the two parties, who work together by the way, have created and are driving the wedge of division.....divide and conquer.
If anyone still listens to ANY MSM, or backs either of the two parties, especially with all the information out there slapping them in the face....they are the useless eaters, the traitors, the brainwashed idiots.
Revolution? Sure!
What a total idiot.
To the Anonymous tools whose only response are insults, what are you afraid of ??? Is your twisted image of the world collapsing ?? Tired of living under a rock but not tired of living in the dark ??? The kids in Egypt were brilliant. They understand the world a millions times more than you ever will. Your days of force, intimidation and manufactured violence are over. Even your control of money is doomed. Jabber away with your shrinking circle of cowards who perpetualy keep their heads in the sand. Embrace your mock wisdom and artificial heroism as you pontificate ad nauseum into the wind. Game over frat boy. Final curtain clown. Time's up. Your house of cards has crumbled. Now run, run, run, run. It won't help, the forces of truth can smell a yellow bellied weasal from one mile away.
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