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http://abcnews.go.com/International/egypt-abc-news-christiane-amanpour-exclusive-interview-president/story?id=12833673&page=1Yeah, dancing in the street can get pretty chaotic <bg>
Sen. Leahy demonstrates once again he has no clue. Wants to cut off aid to Egyptian military. Fortunately, Gates is a grown-up and I am sure the behind the scenes activity right now is geared toward the military convincing Hosni he'd like to spend more time with his family - in Paris.
Unfortunately for Egypt they had Nasser, not Ataturk, but there is still hope the military will become the guarantor of some kind of secular democracy.
( remember when they were groping around for somebody to run Afghanistan and one faction was trying to lure the King out of exile? Wonder of King Farouk or some of his spawn are still around. Those red Rolls-Royces were pretty cool.)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
