Mubarak Stepping Down???

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should be interesting to see what comes out about mubarak's wealth and also how much money he gave to the military leaders.
 
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droski said:
you have a bunch of older people with govt jobs and pensions making good money and more young people essentially starving to death paying for those rich old people's jobs. hard to think there isn't going to be some civil unrest in a situation like that.
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Get back on topic. This has nothing to do with the US Baby Boomers and Generation X/Y. We were talking about Egypt.
 
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emainvol said:
Lots of parallels there, conceptually. There isn't a Khomeini waiting to step in, however.
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we hope.

though egypt is much more metropolitan than iran and hopefully the radical muslims wouldn't be able to take that kind of hold.
 
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emainvol said:
A good deal of it, I would say. Every day that the revolution continues is another day for the Saudi public to watch and concoct their own ideas.
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Only thing saving them is all the money they distribute to their citizens from their oil revenue.
 
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droski said:
we hope.

though egypt is much more metropolitan than iran and hopefully the radical muslims wouldn't be able to take that kind of hold.
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Seems to me the military is a secular and well respected organization in the eyes of the people. It is my hope that the security services in Egypt take on a Turkish type role in protecting a secular democracy and keep the Islamists out.
 
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Burhead said:
Seems to me the military is a secular and well respected organization in the eyes of the people. It is my hope that the security services in Egypt take on a Turkish type role in protecting a secular democracy and keep the Islamists out.
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i agree that's the perception, but it's the military who kept mubarak in power. seems strange the people would be happy with another leader of the same variety.
 
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and Turkey's secular government is giving away more ground to Islamist influence, so it may not be a good example for Egypt to follow.
 
#40
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their military is only concerned with keeping themselves in their current status. No one will be coming in that doesn't support that
 
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utvolpj said:
their military is only concerned with keeping themselves in their current status. No one will be coming in that doesn't support that
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this is why i question whether this could be anything but a very short term fix.
 
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hohenfelsvol said:
Only thing saving them is all the money they distribute to their citizens from their oil revenue.
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Which seems to be the exact opposite of Egypt.

Hard to rebel agaisnt a system that for all intensive purposes is working otu fairly well for the common man.

Mubarak and the Saudi king are close friends. I just can't help but wonder how much Mubarak was pressured by him to step down while he could and before it got more out of control and in a manner that lets him ssave some dignity and prestigue.
 
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droski said:
we hope.

though egypt is much more metropolitan than iran and hopefully the radical muslims wouldn't be able to take that kind of hold.
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Being that they're the only ones with any organization, I don't see any other possibility. Was listening to the radio on the way to work today(not rush, beck, or hannity). Host was saying in the 2005 elections in Egypt, that the Muslim Brotherhood garnered 20% of the vote. And that was running on a campaign of sharia law and war with Israel. They weren't trying to be moderate one bit.

Only one outcome I think is possible. Another radical Muslim state. I fear this will end up causing major problems down the line. Radical Islam is only going to get worse for everyone in this world.
 
#49
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I still believe this revolution has been for the people, by the people and the people won't allow the MB to take power.
 
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VOLatile said:
I still believe this revolution has been for the people, by the people and the people won't allow the MB to take power.
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Hope your right. If your wrong though, we are about to have a really big problem.
 
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