[ul]Cries of “Egypt is free” rang out and fireworks lit up the sky as hundreds of thousands danced, wept and prayed in joyful pandemonium Friday after 18 days of peaceful pro-democracy protests forced President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power to the military, ending three decades of authoritarian rule.
Ecstatic protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir, or Liberation, Square hoisted soldiers onto their shoulders and families posed for pictures in front of tanks in streets flooded with people streaming out to celebrate. Strangers hugged each other, some fell to kiss the ground, and others stood stunned in disbelief.[/ul]
Yay! Let’s see what the Egyptians can make of this. The paper adds:
[ul]The question for Washington now was whether that same arrangement will hold as the Arab world’s most populous state makes a potentially rocky transition to democracy, with no guarantee of the results.[/ul]
Imagine a modern US corporate media paper ever describing the body count associated with authoritarianism as “a rocky transition to dictatorship.” SIGH
[ul]Cries of “Egypt is free” rang out and fireworks lit up the sky as hundreds of thousands danced, wept and prayed in joyful pandemonium Friday after 18 days of peaceful pro-democracy protests forced President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power to the military, ending three decades of authoritarian rule.
Ecstatic protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir, or Liberation, Square hoisted soldiers onto their shoulders and families posed for pictures in front of tanks in streets flooded with people streaming out to celebrate. Strangers hugged each other, some fell to kiss the ground, and others stood stunned in disbelief.[/ul]
Yay! Let’s see what the Egyptians can make of this. The paper adds:
[ul]The question for Washington now was whether that same arrangement will hold as the Arab world’s most populous state makes a potentially rocky transition to democracy, with no guarantee of the results.[/ul]
Imagine a modern US corporate media paper ever describing the body count associated with authoritarianism as “a rocky transition to dictatorship.” SIGH[/quote]
Don’t worry about HuffPO’s descriptions. Now that its been bought by AOL maybe their editorial standards will go up. Otherwise it’s still an over-bloated blog.
But let the lesson be learned here…don’t overstay your welcome.
[ul]Cries of “Egypt is free” rang out and fireworks lit up the sky as hundreds of thousands danced, wept and prayed in joyful pandemonium Friday after 18 days of peaceful pro-democracy protests forced President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power to the military, ending three decades of authoritarian rule.
Ecstatic protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir, or Liberation, Square hoisted soldiers onto their shoulders and families posed for pictures in front of tanks in streets flooded with people streaming out to celebrate. Strangers hugged each other, some fell to kiss the ground, and others stood stunned in disbelief.[/ul]
Yay! Let’s see what the Egyptians can make of this. The paper adds:
[ul]The question for Washington now was whether that same arrangement will hold as the Arab world’s most populous state makes a potentially rocky transition to democracy, with no guarantee of the results.[/ul]
Imagine a modern US corporate media paper ever describing the body count associated with authoritarianism as “a rocky transition to dictatorship.” SIGH[/quote]
Don’t worry about HuffPO’s descriptions. Now that its been bought by AOL maybe their editorial standards will go up. Otherwise it’s still an over-bloated blog.
But let the lesson be learned here…don’t overstay your welcome. [/quote]
You should be so over-bloated.
Great news! Good to see Obama and the EU ‘encouraging’ Mubarak out of office and having a little faith in democracy. It would be nice to see the House of Saud fall too.
[quote=“antarcticbeech”]Great news! Good to see Obama and the EU ‘encouraging’ Mubarak out of office and having a little faith in democracy. It would be nice to see the House of Saud fall too.
Interesting times for Israel.[/quote]
Obama and EU had no option but to show faith in democracy, truth be told, no one cares!
It’s the victory of the Egyptians. Someone will be elected and may not be the best for the country, but that’s the way democracy works, st least the people would have made their own wrong choice instead of having a leader shoved onto them a la Afghanistan and Iraq!
Seriously, folks. We don’t have democracy yet in Egypt. What we have is a coup d’etat by a bunch of guys who may, or may not, be interested in handing power over to a democratically elected government.
As most women can tell you, guys just don’t know when to let go.
Coup d’etat? Hardly. A million plus people in the streets for close on three weeks is a revolution, not a coup. But yes, the question whose interests it’ll ultimately serve.
[quote=“Herodotus”]I’m not sure this is really over. Moses crossed the Red Sea to Sinai when he was 80 years old. Mubarak has crossed over at a still sprightly 82.
And he used to get his orders from a talking Bush.[/quote]
Sincerely, yesterday, as per Mubarak’s statements, I was expecting this situation to degenerate into another Tiananmen. Kudos to the army to act so level headed. Now they are in command, hope they also use this power wisely.
Coup d’etat? Hardly. A million plus people in the streets for close on three weeks is a revolution, not a coup. But yes, the question whose interests it’ll ultimately serve.[/quote]
No, it’s a coup d’etat.
The a bunch of generals have taken over by (threat of) force, and the average Egyptian HOPES that they’ll hand over power to a democratically elected government.
[ul]Cries of “Egypt is free” rang out and fireworks lit up the sky as hundreds of thousands danced, wept and prayed in joyful pandemonium Friday after 18 days of peaceful pro-democracy protests forced President Hosni Mubarak to surrender power to the military, ending three decades of authoritarian rule.
Ecstatic protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir, or Liberation, Square hoisted soldiers onto their shoulders and families posed for pictures in front of tanks in streets flooded with people streaming out to celebrate. Strangers hugged each other, some fell to kiss the ground, and others stood stunned in disbelief.[/ul]
Yay! Let’s see what the Egyptians can make of this. The paper adds:
[ul]The question for Washington now was whether that same arrangement will hold as the Arab world’s most populous state makes a potentially rocky transition to democracy, with no guarantee of the results.[/ul]
Imagine a modern US corporate media paper ever describing the body count associated with authoritarianism as “a rocky transition to dictatorship.” SIGH[/quote]
Don’t worry about HuffPO’s descriptions. Now that its been bought by AOL maybe their editorial standards will go up. Otherwise it’s still an over-bloated blog.
But let the lesson be learned here…don’t overstay your welcome. [/quote]
You should be so over-bloated.[/quote]
