It's hard not to be moved by the faces on the Cairo street, by the elegant, tri-lingual women with sculpted faces and rehearsed certainties, by the old men with broken teeth, hopeful that a long, dark night is over and by exuberant youth, jumping for joy. Yet all that has happened, thus far, is that Ali Baba has slunk away to huge wealth and luxurious exile and a handful of the Forty Thieves now squat on the magic carpet of junta, still, to all intents and purposes, a corp in Uncle Sam's Imperial Army, funded, trained and directed by the Pentagon. The uneasy thought intrudes, Oh, what kind of love is this, which goes from bad to worse?
Maybe, optimistically, the playboy headchoppers and women-stoners across the region, dreading contagion, will be running for their goldplated helicopters, pockets bulging with cocaine and gaudy Rolexes, heading for the international gangster havens of Kensington or Berkshire, maybe the elegant Arab women and the media savvy cosmopolitan youth will ascend and the wicked, evil, beardy sheikh and prince and imam bastards will be consigned rightly to the stone age, Isis triumphant.
Wouldn't that be good shit, a politics guided by women. Rattle some aplha male cages, even in MediaMinster, Bismillah.
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You know there's something rotten in Cairo from the disreputable types who've spoken up in support of the new arrangement.
Partners for Peace, that's the main thing, apparently.
Ahhhhhhh, Ishmael, we must never, ever lose hope. Despite the rotten core of humanity that dominates so easily, here is hope springing very eternal.
Yes. Democracy has triumphed !
My mum & her mates are all egypt nuts, sommet to do with Tooting Karmoon and the head dude - Zowie, was made cabinet minister last week and has been proper silent for the last few days. I smell a reckoning coming and fucking too right, cunts all.
The women and the kids won this, soldiers don't follow every order.
One would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh. The poor bastards. Thirty years of a state of emergency under that bastard and they are now pleased that a military coup d'etat has installed a new General as president. As predicted, may I say, but ten days later than I thought. Some of the people it seems can be fooled all of the time. "Oh, yes", says the BBC, "Egyptians like the army. It's because of conscription that it is 'their' army." Fuck me. That's alright then.
It's so very sweet to enjoy a little hope that the world can change for the better. And yet, and yet...
While the demonstrators spend the day, off their own bat since Egypt now feels like it is their country, cleaning up Liberation Square after 18 days of persistance, demonstrations begin in Algiers with thousands of riot police deployed.
Meanwhile Obama, the Zionists and the Jordanian royals meet to discuss what should be done. I fear the Generals may be the least of those thousands of young and courageous Egyptians' problems.
I think that the Egyptians trust the army enough to let them sort out free and fair elections, which is remarkable. The responsibility is with a counsel of armies, of which there are several, with different interests, not just the buddies of Mubarak and Suleman. I think that is why they can stomach it.
Young Syrians like Assad, and it is raining there, so we won't see an uprising in Syria.
Considering it's another major highway to Asia,the US and China won't allow it to be a Democracy or another Iran,they have bought and paid for Egypt and need it's trade routes and agreements to stay otherwise,Israel and Saudi could fall,with weak US president Obambi in the nutters know this,Iran fell when the peanut farmer was in charge.
It is lovely. Life, just going on around us. I don't buy this domino stuff - good idea but palpably drivel. Any kind of speculation is irrelevant. This whole thing has highlighted the similarities between the media and the FCO &/or state department. The EU was woeful - truly egregious in its hypocrisy. It's bad when you think that Blair's the best of a bad lot! Fuck it - job done and how incredibly polite the Egyptians seem.
Well, we must hope for something like that, Ms Lilith, but the history is not good. The military have provided all the Presidents there have ever been and there has been one Presidential election in 60 years.
There has been another, more insidious colonisation going on; skymadeupnewsandfilth have managed to claim these events for GlobaMedia; none of it would have happened, they all smirk, without Twitter and Facebook - whatever they are - without Google and iThings; as though the American, the French, the Russian, the Cuban and all the other revolutions had never happened, as though our masters in Seattle and Washington had helped us have a nice, peaceful IT revolution, because we are all good, well-behaved iCustomers.
And this, too, has been the thrust of the impudent, the nasty degenerates, the shiteaters, We Truly Applaud The Egyptians gobs professor Obama and the gabshite upstart Cameron, That They Have Not Dragged These Murdering Torturing Thieving Wog Bastards Out Of There Palaces And Strung 'Em Up And That They Are Obeying Their Army. Cameron and Hague and Obama and the witch, Merkel and the pimp Sarkozy all have to say this, for fear that such might be their fate. As, yet, bismillah, it may.
I'll consider it a done revolution when I see some secret policemen and some bloated generals hanging from the palm trees and when I see Mubarak's stolen Swiss funds being showered on Cairo's and Alexandria's poor.
Tears of rage, tears of grief. Almost good enough for a weekend evensong.
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