You are right, some of it is really almost too frightening to contemplate, but we need to understand the seriousness of it.
I can’t believe we’ve had posters thinking this is somehow a good thing.
For what it’s worth Haaretz news website has been updating the situation every few minutes all day, until about an hour ago nothing new has been posted.
I've not read one single poster say it's a "good" thing.
Plenty of us have speculated that revolt such as what is going on now in Egypt is inevitable, that Americans should not have tolerated a Muburak for almost three decades.
We GET that it's not a good thing in that it's likely a more draconion force known as the Muslim brotherhood orchestrating this thing and likely will take over once Muburak's run out of town on a rail.
Many of us "clueless" posters have speculated that on so many occasions this American tendency to prop up and support so-called "benovolent" dictators has backfired time and again, that it was easier to kick the can down the road, until....well until this very same revolution happened, as will always happen in the course of human events, and too often something worse happens.
But we know it's not a "good" thing. This sort of thing is never a GOOD thing.
If Muburak does somehow survive this, that jerk who COULD have been content with ten years of total control and billions in American bribe money and been done with, I will want to see America throw him out right away. If we're lucky that will happen, then maybe we can put some sort of less volatile government in there than the radical extremists.
I don't expect Obamer to do that, of course. He'll kick the can down the road like every other politico, hell, Obamer might appoint the MB himself.
What many "clueless" on this thread have said is that maybe the age of tolerating "benevolent" dictatorships is over. It always ends like Egypt today.
Thanks. Me too...