It surely paid to pour billions of our tax dollars into that cesspool all these years, didn’t it. Now the Muslim crazies will have better weapons to kill us.
Freedom, baby! /s
The Islamists are likely to win 60 to 70% of the seats in the new Parliament. If they win at the upper range, they can write the new constitution themselves without a nod to secular parties. And they will reshape Egyptian society in their own image. Yes, people can vote to enslave themselves and doom themselves to generations of tyranny and further suffering. Arab nationalism is spent but the Islamists have just come into their own in the Middle East - probably for a generation, perhaps several more.
This going to be bad.
This is from article written in February of this year
What the Egyptian revolt means for nuclear proliferation
http://www.tnr.com/article/82995/nuclear-weapons-middle-east-obama-mubarak
Excerpts...
Even more dangerously, unlike Iraq, Syria, and Libya—all of which have been caught attempting to develop a nuclear weapons option—Egypt has the technological capability to separate weapons-usable plutonium from spent reactor fuel, and it operates a research reactor large enough to make a bomb’s worth of plutonium each year. Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest political party clamoring for a say in Cairo’s future, is on record demanding that Egypt develop nuclear weapons to balance those of Israel.
We can only hope that most Egyptians ignore this group. If, however, Egypt goes radical or remains politically unstable, the country’s nuclearization would be a major danger. One of Europe’s leading nuclear experts projects that if this were to happen, Algeria—which also has the technology to extract nuclear-weapons–usable plutonium and a reactor making nearly a bomb’s worth of the stuff each year—would be politically compelled to match Egypt bomb for bomb. And such a nuclear domino effect could easily occur in the context of popular revolutions spreading throughout the Middle East