tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post3625983824891701120..comments2024-03-23T00:46:27.084+02:00Comments on Egyptian Chronicles: The search For a leader whether #Mandela or King or Even Gandalf is still on in #EgyptZeinobiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290387395565291310noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-79637125640779962762013-12-12T08:13:25.095+02:002013-12-12T08:13:25.095+02:00I dont believe the military is unchanged by the ev...I dont believe the military is unchanged by the events of the last 2 years. They can, t exercise power the way they did, not that they might not try.<br />Time is on the side of the democrats like El Baradei, thats we he is right to wait and not take premature risks. <br />There is a tightening up of the media but the outside world views Egypt differently. Remember whenit was difficult to convince some countries that Mubarak was a dictator. I don, t think the military can afford to go back on its commitment to transfer to civilian government. They don, t have that much leeway economically and have to be careful the US does not sanction them.<br />pirooznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-42992523464459931802013-12-10T06:53:24.597+02:002013-12-10T06:53:24.597+02:00I'd be hard pressed to disagree that Egypt is ...I'd be hard pressed to disagree that Egypt is likely to be ruled by a Mubarak replacement only more brutal and willing to kill. That said I can't really blame el-Baradei. He'd probably have been arrested if he stayed behind and I don't suppose he can really be faulted for preferring life in Vienna to rotting in a cell. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12860224658444701747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-25562451686888101772013-12-09T17:29:22.738+02:002013-12-09T17:29:22.738+02:00The Thai coup government was actually stupid enoug...The Thai coup government was actually stupid enough to claim that the protestors it killed were either "terrorists" or killed by some sort of unspecified antigovernment "terrorists." The truth is that, terrorists indeed killed the Thai protestors, but they were state terrorists acting on behalf of a non-democratic government. <br /><br />Now, some of these murderers are being hunted and arrested by those non-terrorists they vilified. <br /><br />Whoever leads the Egyptian revolutionary movement, if such a leader arises, needs not to be a chameleon-like person who abandons principles all the time. April 6 seems more rational and consistent than Tamarod.<br />Orange Ketchuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11147889868883061979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-25023867438057841932013-12-09T17:03:06.005+02:002013-12-09T17:03:06.005+02:00did elbaradei abandon egypt, or did egypt abandon ...did elbaradei abandon egypt, or did egypt abandon him?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-84181340283837362252013-12-09T16:57:42.195+02:002013-12-09T16:57:42.195+02:00Perhaps the state whose upheavals most resembles E...Perhaps the state whose upheavals most resembles Egypt's course since 2013 is Thailand. A coup occurred in Thailand in 2006 deposing Thaksin Shinawatra's government, yet now, the coup has largely been defeated, and its consequences slowly being erased. Yingluck Shinawatra's Pheu Thai party decisively prevailed in recent elections, winning more than half of the parliamentary seats. <br /><br />How did this happen? The red shirts employed dual tracks of focusing on both revolutionary action and electoral politics. As the oligarchic, anti-democratic military government predictably overreached, massacred civilians, postponed elections/rigged elections, its popularity plummeted. The powerful political machine built by the Shinawatras reclaimed power.<br /><br />They did this by tapping into the votes of the rural masses, as well as garnering the support of the urban power in many areas. Their foes quite literally could not conceive of a movement actually focusing on anything outside the de facto nobility and thus were caught off-guard. <br /><br />A somewhat similar pattern has also occurred in parts of South America. <br /><br />Egyptian revolutionaries and democrats need to pursue dual tracks as well. They need to shatter the attempt to enable the deep state to rule by proxy through the defense and interior ministries, as currently the constitution is attempting to establish. Orange Ketchuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11147889868883061979noreply@blogger.com