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Being Hosni Mubarak

(Wall Street Journal) Bret Stephens - Imagine yourself as Hosni Mubarak, master of Egypt for nearly 30 years. You've been watching the demonstrators - the way they dress, the way they shave. On Sunday, in Tahrir Square, you could tell right away that most were from the Muslim Brotherhood, though they were taking care not to chant the usual Islamic slogans. They want you to relinquish power to them? What unites the protesters is anger. But anger is an emotion, not a strategy, much less a political agenda. If the Brotherhood has its way, Egypt will become a Sunni theocracy modeled on Iran. If the democracy activists have theirs, it'll be a weak parliamentary system, incapable of exercising authority over the army and a cat's paw for a Brotherhood that knows its revolutionary history.
2011-02-02 08:48:10
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