Thank you Very Much for your post, Azari.AzariLoveIran wrote:.
"If we find that Scaf stands firm against us as we try to fulfil the demands of the revolution, we will go back to the streets and escalate things peacefully to the highest possible stage,"
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"Over the past 18 months we were very keen to avoid any clashes or confrontations with other components of Egypt's political system because we felt that it would have negative consequences for the democratic system and for society as a whole," . . . . "But now it's very clear that Scaf and other institutions of the state are determined to stand in the way of what we're trying to achieve, and we won't accept this any more. Egypt will not go back to the old regime through any means, legal or illegal.
"The revolution is facing a life or death moment and the Egyptian people have put their faith in Dr Morsi to represent them at this time."
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Hmmmm
Rhubarb , what is your take ? ?
Why you keepin silent ? ?
you relaaaxed , Morsi our SOB ?
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
Reminds me a bit of the Islamist goons of the Middle East such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the wannabe religious policemen seen in Egypt and the Ayatollah Khomenei and his Green Book which I have read.........a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Somehow Mubarak doesn't seem that bad by comparison..........
To be fair Wilsonian Uz can be that way too ... George W.W. ...... Bush... Trying to teach Democracy to people who really do not want it that much......
Perhaps it would have been much better if our goal in Afghanistan had been simply to kill Osama and his Al Queda buddies, thoroughly trash the Taliban and all its works/infrastructure for harboring them and not handing them over.......... And then leave.....