Category Archives: egypt
Egypt Arab Spring
Democracy in Egypt features checks and balances. The voters elected a Muslim Brotherhood majority parliament and a Brotherhood president. The military checked the new president by stripping his office of its powers. The judiciary balanced the parliament by dissolving it.
Tear Down That Wall
There was something for everyone in Obama’s speech last week – a new brand for Israel, 1967 Classic, and a new work ethic for the rest of the Mideast.
Bobbing along with the president’s verbal flotsam of Egyptian debt relief, enterprise funds, and IMF / World Bank schemes was this proclamation:
“Prosperity also requires tearing down walls that stand in the way of progress -– the corruption of elites who steal from their people; the red tape that stops an idea from becoming a business;”
Horse Sense
I got this idea from a Rich Lowry column.
Osama bin Laden famously talked of the weak horse and the strong horse. Obama is the show horse.
For the record, the Show Horse picked Kansas to beat Ohio State in the March Madness final in April.
Can You Hear Me Now?
The domino effect has been a standby image at least since the Vietnam war. The social media effect is new.
Kathleen Parker’s column, Tanks vs Twitter, is a good one.
Clueless Clapper
National Intelligence Director, James Clapper, is at it again. Yesterday, when Egyptian President Mubarak decided to stay, before he decided leave, Clapper described the Muslim Brotherhood as a non-violent secular outfit. The administration issued a correction. When last seen, Clapper was being briefed by Diane Sawyer about a major terrorist arrest in London. Don’t ask him if the Pope’s Catholic.
