Often in our self-perceived vocation as the torch-bearers of freedom and democracy, we tend to lose sight not only of the limited power of politically engineered change in an Muslim majority country such as Egypt, but of that simple truism that no society can ever live outside the parameters of its basic ideology.
It has taken me over twenty years living in an Muslim country before I finally understood islam - it will take my fellow Americans back home twice as long.
Hate to say it FRiends, but I told you so...
An American Expat in Southeast Asia