Here is quote from the Washington Posts:
As word spread of Bouazizi's self-immolation, so did the riots. On the street next to the cafe are charred buildings and boarded-up shop fronts. Several protesters died on this street during clashes with police, witnesses said. On the walls, graffiti voiced the angst of a generation: "The City of Joblessness" and "Let's wage jihad to realize our demands."
Tunisia was long considered a model country in the region, with high economic growth rates derived largely from tourism, universities, hospitals and good infrastructure. But the wealth remained largely in the hands of the elite. By some estimates, 20 percent to 40 percent of the nation's youth are unemployed, mirroring figures in other Arab countries.Here from the Wall Street Journal is a short clip of rioting centralist Egyptians promoting their cause with Mohamed El Baradei, a Nobel Piece Prize laureate. They are against Mubarak's choice, Omar Suleiman, his longtime intelligence chief, as vice president
Sharky&Sharky believe that this alleged revolutionary fervor that has supposedly leaped from Tunisia to Egypt is a western press fairy tale. This is not a sympatico revolution. Whoever heard of such a thing? The revolution in Egypt is the result of poor conditions in Eygpt and the provocations of the Eygptian Muslim Brotherhood. During the current Eygptian riots 34 leaders of the Muslim Brother escaped jailed. It appears that their families let them out.
The US has aided and abetted Egypt's horrible conditions by not demanding that Mubarak, our partner, fix the deplorable dictatorial conditions in his country. There is no way any dictatorial government can fix the economic conditions of this country.Each person's imagination must be set free. Currently Egypt has nothing that the rest of the world wants to buy, and it has no infrastructure to distribute and sell anything. Enough complaining about the past. What to do and why about the future?
President Mubarak has been an effective and essential catalyst for implementing US foreign policy in the Middle East. Our policies must change. The US has failed to nuture democracy in Eygpt. The resultant is that riots and mobocracy are in the street. However El Baradei, Suleiman nor young people in the street will be enough to manage Egypt for long, if at all, leaving ample opportunity for Muslim Bortherhood to ally with Al Qaeda and convert Egypt into Afghanistan. This may well lead to renewed dictatorship ala Iran. The first thing that must happen is Mubarak must go, a modest home in Oklahoma would be sufficient. How soon? No later than February 1, 2011. A temporary government must be put in place to write a new constitution for Egypt. Eygpt now needs a democratically elected leader and a representative legislature. This Constitution must be written based on classical liberalism without ethnic or religious dictates. Futher the developers of the Constitution should be skeptical of communitarianism. The country's name should drop the word Arab. The Arabs were a conquering people of Eygpt and not an indigenous Egyptian people. Also the word Islamic should not be introduced in the new Constitution. Notice all the videos of the Egyptian revolution; there are no women. Are they to be continually squashed? The word "Islamic" insures that women will not have an equal voice. Everything should be done to develop a Constitution before the end of the summer and to have formal elections under the new Constitution before the end of 2011.
Failing this immediacy, radical Islam will take hold in Eygpt with the its associated bloodshed, backward looking, and dictatorship; the Muslim Brotherhood will see to that. Islam abhors a true democracy.
Sharky&Sharky©
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