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Like my mother used to say: “Everything old is new again…”
Yep, they traded in Mubarak, a career military officer for al-Sissi, a career military officer.
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And yet, the Egyptians still seem so fickle…It’s a strongman one year, and a religious zealot the next. Maybe they could keep a lookout for a bookish type…someone from academia perhaps, or a do like the rest of the world and stick an oligarch in as a placeholder until at least the next coup.
It appears that Egypt has gone full circle. A lot of anguish to go through for replacing one strongman with the next.
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The impression that I came away with on the “Egypt Spring” was that the Egyptian people saw the results of the democratically held election, didn’t understand what went wrong and didn’t have the patience to work within the system to change it. As ATL says, they’ve now come full circle. And this is the way things will stay in that country.