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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Egypt's economic growth has been among the highest in the Middle East in recent years....just not fast enough coming after years of stagnation and neglect.
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Just not fast enough....so a comparison to other economies is important because....?
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The issue is not only economic. It is a corrupt regime, including rigged elections for years and a police force that acts as thugs for Mubarak.
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When was it not a corrupt regime? What is the real difference this time? It is economics!
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Originally Posted by roachboy
funny stuff ace. from bloomberg as usual you'd learn nothing whatsoever about the political situation; replacing it is some bland bourgeois concern with how bad it is to raise wages and invest in job creation because according to some wholly dysfunctional neo-liberal ideology, any political orientation that distributes wealth toward the citizenry is a priori bad.
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Why make stuff up?
If economic conditions for the people in Egypt were tolerable there would be no revolt. Mubarak has little control over the larger economic conditions in Egypt nor will his replacement. It is US economic policy that has the biggest impact on the economy in Egypt.
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so people like you, who buy into this sort of stuff, have no real problem with brutal dictatorships.
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I supported Bush's call for free and open elections in Egypt, did you?
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hell you like em so long as they keep stuff stable. so you cannot imagine why people in egypt would mobilize to rid themselves of a 30 year state of emergency of rigged elections and political repression, or routine torture...
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Get real, if people put up with 30 years of anything, they don't have a problem with it. Again, what is the real difference this time?
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i expect you'd have been out with the pro-mubarak goons that rolled into tahrir square this morning just at the time the army happened to stop patting down everyone who entered the square for weapons the way they had been for the last week or so.
this democracy business has to stop. people should learn their place, right ace?
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Wrong. The Bush strategy was clear and I supported it. He believed if Democracy gained a foothold in the ME it would spread. I don't recall you supporting Bush when he was in office on these issues.