Posted on 02/11/2011 1:53:50 PM PST by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
We need to remove restrictions for drilling here. It will take a while to get results but we better not keep waiting.
“We will reap what we have sown.”
Before one sews, one must plow and till and fertilize, and one must sew in orderly furrows at a fixed depth, and cover the seeds with topsoil, and then irrigate, mulch and weed, as well as pray for rain. When you sew seeds higgledy-piggledy any which way, with no preliminary preparation and no follow-up, you get a see-saw crop where anything grows at all, and weeds everywhere else. You need a serious farmer to reap a good crop, and right now we’ve got a damned-fool dabbler, who doesn’t know which end is up on a hoe.
Jean Kirkpatrick was not a Neoconservative.
My problem with Mubarak’s comments is that he acts as if his dicatatorship was the ONLY alternative for the last 30 years - it wasn’t.
He didn’t just keep the Muslim Brotherhood out of any real political participation, he kept Egyptians that wanted to start secular moderate groups out of real political participation as well.
Worst of well, while keeping ALL opposition groups out of real political participation, he gave wide public latitude to the Muslim Brotherhood in academia and the media. In fact the public voice they obtained was larger than the secular moderate opposition groups. Like the Saudis do with the Wahabi clerics, he thought he was placating the Islamists.
He wasn’t. And, he was actually helping them - by their public voice - gain public acceptance, even though he gave them little or no legal political voice.
Mubarak would have everyone believe that for 30 years his dictatorship was the only solution.
When, in fact, he has had sufficient power for the last thirty years to have chosen to be the “agent of reform” himself, if he had wanted to.
Sorry, Mubarak, the “democratic” road ahead may not be an easy road, and so Egypts future is unceratian, but you were the one who could have paved a better road for Egypt yourself. You didn’t.
Claiming that your dictatorship has always been the only solution is a fraud and a delusion.
Yes, outing skin heads from FR is one of my many motives.
But it appears you did a fine job of that yourself.
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