A Thrilling Moment in Egypt
Feb 12, 2011
Chris Blattman has an excellent post about how difficult it is to speculate about what the results of Mubarak's overthrow will be five years down the road. That is what is thrilling about this week in Egypt-- the future could go in many different directions. Egyptians' actions in the coming months will determine the course of history. Of course, none of this would have been possible with the Mubarak family in power.
Egyptians: The future is yours, good luck!
Thrilling and terrifying. Although the potential for success is there so is the potential for failure and as one American foreign policy maker pointed out, he may have been a son of a bitch, but he was a stable son of a bitch that we knew.