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To: Retired Greyhound
It will be 100% more radical if Mubarak falls and the Muslim Brotherhood (aka Hamas, aka Al Qaeda, aka The Taliban) is able to seize power.

Without a doubt, but what the Muslim Brotherhood wants is not necessarily what Egypt gets. The Muslim Brotherhood is regional, unpopular among the poor, and very fractured amongst themselves.

There are more than a dozen political parties with a variety of missions and goals. The Muslim Brotherhood will likely be pulled into some sort of a coalition government. They'll have opinions and influence, not control.

The MB and Iran are both cheering on this revolution, because step one is toppling this government. Step two, seizing control of the country, is a pipe dream for them.

You can't get a million people to risk their lives marching in the streets so they can replace their old dictator with a new one.

It would be a great time for some visionary American leadership, but we'll have to hope they can find their way without it. We're fresh out.

20 posted on 02/01/2011 10:45:25 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

The Muslim Brotherhood is the most ardent and fanatical, and will likely have a larger influence than we wish.

Tehran, like Cairo, was a lovely and fairly modern secular city...until 1979.

The MB will preach death to Israel, and large portions of the population will agree. It’s bad news.

I certainly wouldn’t want to live under Mubaraks rule, but the success of this revolution will be a victory for the radicals, not for the freedom lovers.


23 posted on 02/01/2011 11:18:21 AM PST by Retired Greyhound
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