{"id":4660,"date":"2011-02-05T19:18:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T00:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2011-02-05T19:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T00:26:18","slug":"4660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/05\/4660\/","title":{"rendered":"the social order…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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West Backs Gradual Egyptian Transition<\/a>
New York Times<\/strong>
By KAREEM FAHIM and MARK LANDLER
February 5, 2011
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CAIRO — The United States and leading European nations on Saturday threw their weight behind a gradual transition in Egypt, backing attempts by the country’s vice president, Omar Suleiman<\/span>, to negotiate with opposition groups without immediately removing President Hosni Mubarak<\/span> from power. The strong endorsement came as Mr. Suleiman, a longtime security official and confidante of Mr. Mubarak, told opposition leaders that he would not press his boss to resign before September and ruled out any delegation of Mr. Mubarak’s power, central demands of the opposition.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Mr. Mubarak’s ruling party then announced a shake-up that removed its old guard, including his son Gamal, while installing younger, more reform-minded figures as a modest gesture to protesters. The moves amounted to a rebuff to protesters who have posed the most serious challenge to the nearly three-decade rule of Mr. Mubarak, a pillar of the American-backed order in the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have demanded faster and more sweeping changes to the military-dominated government that has relied on an ossified ruling party, police, and a powerful clique of businessmen at the center of power.<\/sup><\/p>\n

By emphasizing the need for a gradual transition, only days after emphasizing that change there must begin immediately, the Obama administration was viewed as shifting away from protesters in the streets and toward stronger backing for Mr. Mubarak’s hand-picked elite. Protesters who filled Tahrir Square for a 12th straight day and leaders of opposition groups insisted that genuine change in Egypt required Mr. Mubarak’s departure as a first step.<\/sup><\/p>\n

“They are trying to kill what has happened and to contain and abort the revolution,” said Hassan Nafaa, a political science professor at Cairo University. “They want to continue to manage the country like they did while making some concessions. These are cosmetic changes that don’t change the regime. We do not want this”…<\/sup><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The picture up top is the important part of this article. It’s the impression I had of the Egyptians when we were there, of an extremely decent people who cared a lot about their country – a country that is a hell of a mess that needs to be cleaned up both literally and figuratively. I know that people who are heads of state have to deal with governments as representing a people. But the government of Egypt obviously doesn’t. That much seems very clear.<\/div>\n
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There’s nothing right for President Obama to do. That seems to be his lot. The only reason to follow the course outlined in this article would be to maintain civil order and I hope that’s why he and the other world leaders are supporting it. I personally think it’s a mistake. My own read is in that top picture. I think the Egyptian people would maintain the social order all by themselves. That’s just the way they are.<\/div>\n
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