tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post2897218035318263702..comments2024-03-16T09:11:27.097-04:00Comments on GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD: Aegypt AflameGrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09760252542953109449noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719362718346107647.post-14128401437393252922011-11-22T20:05:10.240-05:002011-11-22T20:05:10.240-05:00Courtney, Courtney, Courtney...as always, I love h...Courtney, Courtney, Courtney...as always, I love how you write to death, but I just can't agree with your conclusion here.<br /><br />What the Egyptian military is proposing is the Turkish Model..or at least what <i>was</i> the Turkish model until Erdogan and the AKP got it.<br /><br />From our standpoint, it likely is the best of several bad solutions IMO.<br /><br />Of course the Islamists are going to say whatever Obama wants to hear. Their religion allows them to lie outright to non-believers. They aren't working to get power to give it up.<br /><br />Islam and democracy don't mix. And that is particularly true of Arab states. The Ottomans understood this quite well. They ruled the Arabs without any major problems by treating them like serfs, bleeding them white with taxes and punishing whatever challenges to their rule came up with extreme harshness.<br /><br />It worked for five centuries, and would have lasted even longer if the Ottomans hadn't picked the losing side in WWI thanks to anger at Britain for confiscating a few warships for their own fleet that the Turks had bought for their own navy and Turkey's historic antagonism towards Russia.<br /><br />Whomever rules Egypt is going to have to deal with this mindset ( because of the Arab's tendency towards relative anarchy, the Qu'ran is fairly harsh about condemning anarchy and emphasizing submission to Islam and the Muslim powers that be)and the fact that Egypt,no matter who rules is going to be facing major privations and the resulting social disorder.<br /><br />Bluntly, Egypt has a population of 80 million people it can't feed.'Democracy' ain't gonna change that..not for Egypt or for the other Arab nations in the same boat, because of the massive increase in food prices, particularly soya and cereal grains. Because Islam does no really value the individual, productivity is low and the major wealth in the region comes from oil the Arabs not only didn't create but were not able to find or exploit on their own. Egypt doesn't even have that much..a declining tourist industry and a canal someone else built for them. <br /><br />The Islamists offer a way out,citing how Arab nationalism has failed and pushing Islam and the Caliphate as the way of the future to correct this rather than looking at the dysfunctional nature of Muslim societies in general.<br /><br />Take care, OK?<br /><br />-Rob-Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13332213651195340500noreply@blogger.com