The late 1970’s gave the world Star Wars, the Iranian Revolution and an incompetant boob for a US President. The early 2010’s, so far, is giving the world an Egyptian revolution and an incompetant boob for a US President, but nothing akin to Star Wars seems on the horizon. “Avatar” just ain’t the same.
Due to the last incompetant boob of a President, the Iranian revolution turned into an international nightmare… spurred on by Carter’s boobery, the revolution committed an act of war against the US, did not get beat down for it. It became a permanent fixture in the region, leading to the repression of Iran, in part the Iran-Iraq war, decades of state-sponsored terrorism, and very likely nuclear armed Islamic nutjobs. What will the Egpytian revolution bring? Maybe it will bring true democratic reform to the country. Normally that’d be a good thing, but the middle east has shown that when democracy is allowed to flower, the people there tend to vote for Islamist whackos.
After WWII, the US spent a great deal of time and treasure de-Nazifying Germany and de-Emperorizing Japan. By dragging those countries out of the mires they’d gotten themselves into, they became nations where democracy could work. After Iraq, the US spent *some* effort on de-Ba’athification, but none on de-Islamisimification. And so Iraq became a nation where democracy *kinda* works. But if Egypt falls… chances are good that it’ll be taken over by Islamist nuts, and become another Iran.
Somehow I suspect the alert level in Israel is a bit elevated these days.
Some good photos out of Egypt: http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/01/the-egypt-protests/
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I wonder what Zahi thinks about all this
http://www.drhawass.com/
I suppose he has to remain silent. I wonder if a new government might be tempted to sell off antiquities he has been doing his best to return to Egypt…
A new government could well think it a good and proper idea to *destroy* all the antiquities, given as how they’re all pagan and un-Islamic and whatnot. Unlikely, but not impossible, given what the Taliban did.