Shane Mage wrote: > It's not betting--it's fixing the game. The problem is a mass uprising. > US's solution, its absolute requirement, is a military regime in Egypt. > Mubarak/Tantawi was a military regime. Morsi/Sisi was a military regime. > Bublowi/Sisi is a military regime. As will be the next "democratically > elected" government. The point is to change just enough that nothing will > change--all paid for through its Gulf clients.
_Some_ change is o.k. as far as the U.S. elite is concerned. The problem for them is change that threatens the aspects of the _status quo_ that they like. Teaching more young girls how to read wouldn't threaten the U.S. elite, unless it wakes the Salafis up even more and causes a bigger anti-liberal revolution. Since the latter is a possibility, the default position of the elite is likely to have no change at all. But if there are significant social and political forces pushing for change, the elite will bend a bit, while trying to limit and co-opt those forces. You're right that the backbone of the Egyptian political situation is the military and that the US does everything it can to preserve a "military-managed democracy." (As I've noted, most militaries these days don't want to govern directly, since they don't want the blame.) -- Jim Devine / "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
