Egypt’s Emerging Democracy
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-11-27/egypt%E2%80%99s-emerging-democracy
Egypt’s president appeared to back away from his declaration last week to take on near-absolute power. A representative for Mohamed Morsi said Monday a compromise with the Supreme Judicial Council would leave most of the president’s actions subject to court review. But the agreement would protect the Constitutional Council from being dissolved before finishing its work. The deal didn’t satisfy critics who say President Morsi’s power grab is a threat to Egypt’s fragile young democracy. And some suggest the U.S. is turning a blind eye to the president’s actions as long as he supports a truce between Palestinians and Israelis. Diane and her guests discuss the latest on Egypt’s power struggle.
Guests
Nancy Youssef
Middle East bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers.
Robin Wright
journalist, joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and author of "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World."
Samer Shehata
assistant professor of Arab politics at Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies.
Hisham Melhem
Washington bureau chief for Al-Arabiya News Channel.
Nicholas Burns
professor in the practice of diplomacy and international politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and former undersecretary for political affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
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"Arab Spring", "emerging democracies", this is all liberal claptrap. Yes there was a revolt, not a flowering spring. Yes there was a trading of one dictator for another, not an emerging democracy. This is so obviously reflected by what is going on here, a new face lift and paint job on the utterly failed idea of socialism. Slap a friendly sounding name on something that has failed time after time and it becomes something that it isn't, trouble is it always ends up the same way, poverty and lots of dead people.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/19-11-2012/122849-obama_sovi...
"Obama has been re-elected for a 2nd term by an illiterate society and he is ready to continue his lies of less taxes while he raises them. He gives speeches of peace and love in the world while he promotes wars as he did in Egypt, Libya and Syria."
Oh awesome PP! I'm really glad that you linked to that informative, well-written op-ed from PRAVDA - you know, that Russian standard that would totally give the President a fair review.
If anyone goes through the trouble of reading that tripe, I would hope you realize how useless it is with childish name changing like "O'bomber".
I also call total BS on the fact that it was clearly written in English first for Pravda which makes no sense.
Get your act together, PP, you're getting desperate.
We don`t know. The House of Representatives and Peter King had hearings on the who is who in the Muslim world,only to have it digress into a Muslim hate rally. Is the Egyptian Supreme Court full of WHACKO ideologues like the 5 T-Party nuts on our own SCOTUS?
Failure looks like Afghanistan. A 12+ year project to bring Democracy to the Middle East. An appointed oil man for President. Brought to the Afgans by T-Party/Republicans who hate the word Democracy,and worse voting.
Any government not appointed by our Fascist loving CIA is a plus.Not having peoples hiding in wait,to exact revenge onto the country who imposed these brutal tyrannical butcher dictators on the helpless citizens is the goal,or should be. Friends and better than enemies. Peace is better than war.....Unless you are a 'Military Industrial Complex' supporter or profiteer.
"Israel has had a strategic set back over the last two years" When Israel kicked the Obama administration in the cajones for bringing up and asking Israel to stop expanding illegal settlements in the West Bank and illegal housing in E Jerusalem do you think President Obama's clear support of over throwing decades long US supported Mubarak was away to move Israel to abide by UN resolutions etc in another way? Was that a component of Obama's support for this overthrow of Mubarak. Hit the I/P issue in another way since Israel was continuing to refuse to play fairly?
The gentleman who had the last comment gave the most lucid and compelling reasons why he does not (and why we should not) trust those political parties who are identified as "Islamist." There are too many liberal and/or mostly well-intentioned people who wince when these truths are brought to light, as if ignoring them will make them go away or be less poisonous to the cause of liberty of the individual and liberty of women and religious minorities in the countries where these parties have or are coming into power.
I find it unconscionable that, this morning on this show, some two and half months since the event, Robin Wright continued to promulgate the big lie so often repeated on NPR that the Benghazi attack was a consequence of American antipathy to the sensiblities of devout Muslims. Ironically even as Susan Rice is disavowing the claim before congress with a dubious defense that the intelligence available to her was inaccurate, 11 days after the event.
There is so much armchair punditry. It is legitimate to express opinions and forecasts as to what should happen and what could happen on the basis of what we know. However, mostly we cannot really be sure. Americans and Arabs engage in this kind of exercise vis-a-vis each other, often without any humility. For my take on this point, see:
http://theoriginalamed.blogspot.com/201 ... arabs.html
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@ Clifford: Cliff, 'ol buddy your comments are complete tripe... Have you ever in your life started a post without manning a full on frontal assault on the Repubs???
When your toast is burnt and cold and your cream of wheat is lumpy in the morning do you start your day out by bitching at the conservatives because they were the ones who owned the companies that manufactured the products that you screwed up when you didn't follow directions on how to cook when you were trying to make your own breakfast?
You can thank your beloved Obama for giving a thumbs up to the Arab spring and the resulting faux "democracy", murder, death and chaos that comes with it. Don't try rubbing the blame off on a past failed policy in Afghanistan because what is currently going on there right now IS Obama's policy. He owns it lock, stock and barrell. This current POTUS has more history and skin in the game in Afghanastan than Bush ever did. Stop looking 8 years back and try looking at the past 4 years with the same damn high-powered microscope you use on Bush and the repubs everyday....