Caroline Glick
On Wednesday, Egypt had its second revolution in as many years. And there is no
telling how many more revolutions it will have in the coming months, or years.
This is the case not only in Egypt, but throughout the Islamic world……US
reporters and commentators today portray this week's protests as the
restoration of the Egyptian revolution. That revolution, they remain convinced,
was poised to replace long-time Egyptian leader and US-ally Hosni Mubarak with
a liberal democratic government led by people who used Facebook and Twitter……As
was the case in 2011, the voices of liberal democracy in Egypt are so few and
far between that they have no chance whatsoever of gaining power, today or for
the foreseeable future. At this point it is hard to know what the balance of
power is between the Islamists who won 74 percent of the vote in the 2011
parliamentary elections and their opponents. But it is clear that their
opponents are not liberal democrats. They are a mix of neo-Nasserist fascists,
communists and other not particularly palatable groups…… Israelis watched in
shock and horror as their American friends followed the Pied Piper of the phony
Arab Spring over the policy cliff. Mubarak was a dictator. But his opponents
were no Alexander Dubceks. There was no reason to throw away 30 years of
stability before figuring out a way to ride the tiger that would follow it.….ToRead More…..
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