I am stunned at the gullibility of the American journalists and diplomats involved with the great overthrow of the Egyptian Dictator. They are so desperate for something to call good in the middle east, they will develop a wholesale fantasy about it. I am old enough to remember Castro and his freedom fighters and their almost bloodless overthrow of the dictator Batista. Oh how good, Cuba would now be free! People would simply not believe that one ruler will be replaced by another. I remember watching the Edward R Morrow Show with the tour of the presidential palace in Havana. Fidel just smiled when Morrow asked "Is it true?Are you a Communist? " His answer Si. Then came the denials from the American press, "How could he say that? He must be joking! Anything but face the fact that they had been duped.
Now I wait for the other shoe to drop. Sometime down the road we will wake up to some facts of life. The Military Revolution of the 50's their leader was Nasser/Sadat/Mubarak and soon the military will tell Egypt who is in charge. We are somewhat lucky that we have been training and supporting the military, we may be able to salvage something out of this but it is the middle east. As of now the military is rewriting the constitution, the military says they will have an election as soon as possible, for now go home and wait till we tell you what happened. If it works the military will have had a somewhat bloodless coup.
I will be surprised if the social revolution provides us anything except several weeks or months of entertainment. I know this is not a popular view, but the other shoe hasn't dropped yet. I have avoided the Iran comparison because I am too much of an optimist to believe that another Democrat administration can screw up in the same way. It is too easy to believe that smart ,charismatic presidents could be so stupid. I am waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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