parallels between Mubarack regime and Obama regime and what can be a third hypothetical outcome of the Egyptian standoff
Posted on | January 30, 2011 | 2 Comments
First let’s go to the parallels:
1. Mubarack is an illegitimate president. Obama is an illegitimate president, sitting inthe WH without long form BC and with CT SSN 042-68-4425
2. Reported rigged elections in Egypt. Reported rigged elections in the US with George Soros project “secretaries of State” and most of our ballot counting programs in the hands of one foreign company “Dominion”
3. economic downturn
4. rising unemployment
5. arrogant ruling elite detached from the people
6. High unemployment among the young people
Do I need to go any further? The pattern is clear. We might end up seeing the same upheaval in the US at some point.
Now going back to Egypt. It is interesting that everyone is talking about a conundrum: on one hand Mubarack is t tyrant, however the prospect of Muslim brotherhood as a replacement and the repeat of Iran 1979 is a more worrisome alternative. Nobody seems to see a way out.
Everyone is talking about a couple of alternatives a. use of force to quash the revoult b. doing nothing and Muslim brotherhood taking over.
Well, here is another hypothetical outcome. Just recently it was announced that Egypt is running out of staples of food. So, here is a possible outcome and yet another scenario. When people are hungry, when they need to feed their families, they might be more willing to choose a different path. In a few days people will be running out of food, drinking water. Setting food kitchens and water dispensaries will keep people occupied with doing something else: standing in line for those supplies. There are a lot of young people, who are unemployed. When the government will employ them in exchange for salary and food coupons, they will have something to do, they will have to go to work. Now there is plenty of work in rebuilding Cairo, Alexandria, rebuilding and re-stocking the stores that were looted. Let those young people work in rebuilding and earn their salaries, earn their food. They will be less likely to riot and more likely to do something productive. Let the Egyptians, who are now demonstrating in US, go back home and help. Let them put their knowledge and skills in building low income housing, in farming, in agriculture, in hydro amelioration, in building de-salination plants.
Clearly there has to be some reform, people will not be quiet achieving nothing, but if Mubarack announces that he will not run for another term, that his son Gamal Mubarack will not replace him, it will give people a sense of accomplishment, they achieved something, they ended this dynasty. On the other hand it will give moderates some time to get organized before the September elections.
The government needs to come up with projects in strengthening the economy, feeding people and keeping the young volatile crowd occupied. God knows there are plenty of opportunities in this area, which is known as the cradle of civilization.
I remember when Anuar Sadat was working with Russians, he embarked on a large project of building the Asuan hydroelectric dam. That gave employment to thousands of young people, who otherwise would be plotting revolutions. Of course there were some problems with that project. Apparently someone loaded on too much vodka or arack, while making calculations for the dam. At the end the flooding was larger than expected and an ancient Temple got submerged. From what I remember this temple was dismantled and brought to the US. I believe it is now in the metropolitan museum, but leaving details aside, it solved the problem for some time. Egypt has fertile lands along the Nile valley, it has resort areas of the Red Sea, it’s tourism can sky rocket, having the greatest wonders of the world in Memphis and Alexandria. Let’s hope that some knowledgeable economic strategists and political strategists will arrive at the ground zero of this upheaval and will help.
I always stated that it makes no sense to just give economic aid without strings attached,without some conditions. Unfortunately it appears that for too long economic aid was given without any significant condidtions and verification of complience. We are now seeing the results.
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