> I fear you are right. I hope the Egyptians are enjoying
> their brief respite before true darkness falls.
I pray that I’m wrong.
The people in Iran rejoiced to see the Shah leave, and they looked forward to a democratic republic, with freedoms for all.
But their joy was short-lived, for what they got in place of the Shah was a much, much worse tyranny, with repression and torture and murder and executions orders of magnitude greater than anything the Shah ever did.
The thing that really disturbs me now is that I felt that Jimmy was just dumb and naive. I'm old enough to have seen the fall of Iran, and I knew it was going to be bad. But I thought it was stupidity and the usual liberal naivete that let it happen.
But now I think we have a president who is actually setting up his personally appointed Islamic tyranny. I bet that the Egyptian army (except for those who are also members of the MB) is going to be undermined and overthrown by the US in no time at all.