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Egypt on the Brink - With No Clear Way Back

(Wall Street Journal) Fouad Ajami - There is no deliverance within sight for the untold numbers out in Egypt's public squares. The "street" shall not deliver order, adjudicate fundamental struggles between Egyptians keen to live in a secular state and those who have been biding their time to impose an Islamic order. Coups, assassinations and the 30-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak robbed the country of the political vitality and parliamentary practice it had known for 30 years beginning in 1922. In 1952 Egyptians had looked to the army for redemption and got dictatorship in return that was to rule for six decades. The writer is a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.

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