So what do we know? Well our boy Honsi resigned a couple of hours ago. Lots of people in Egypt are really happy. There are supposed to be free elections. That's pretty much it. Oh yeah, Honsi was a big fat dictator, but not the biggest fattest dictator in the middle east... so good riddance..... right? Wait, he was our personal big fat dictator.
In America everybody is at a loss. How do we take something that caught us by surprise, has almost nothing to do with us, and should be seen as an affirmation that people want to control their own lives and turn it into something that easily fits into our self absorbed red/blue 24 hour news cycle narrative?
If you are a democrat you tip toe around this whole development like it's a land-mine. Democracy is good, but there are scary muslims over there and if we aren't careful it will be like Iran, and then we'll get blamed, and it will be Jimmy Carter all over again, and we'll get croaked in 2012, and.... shut-up!
If you are a republican you tip toe around this whole development like it is a land-mine. Democracy is good, but there are scary muslims over there, and even though Bush's whole war in Iraq was about bringing democracy to the middle east if we aren't careful it will be like Iran, and that's a bad thing if we take credit too early, but it would be an even worse thing if it turns out well and the democrats get the credit, and it is definitely a bad thing if we don't get the Egyptian people to create a government the we want them to, and It will be Obama's 3AM call that he blew, which is good for us in 2012, and maybe it will turn out alright after all, which means Bush's vision... shut-up!
Thank God the people that read this blog know that "Democracy is a good thing". Let it happen.
Solidarity people of Egypt.
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