tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639046296081313228.post1075998117011210230..comments2024-03-21T07:00:29.129-07:00Comments on basmanroselaw: Good Overview of Egypt From a Right of Centre Pessimistic Perspectiveitzik basmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04819878847328122792noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639046296081313228.post-31130627448519629242011-01-31T18:40:16.113-08:002011-01-31T18:40:16.113-08:00...Liberalism is only a more successful way to mak......Liberalism is only a more successful way to make societies wealthier...<br /><br />I'd think it's an awful lot more than that.<br /><br />Egypt is being gripped by a conflict between internal "enemies," the outcome of which will determine its future for time to come. That conflicy it between forces of secular moderation, however autocratic, paradoxically,which are relatively forward looking and may contain the seeds of progressive democratic development and the Muslim brotherhood, which stands for the inverse of all of that. Egypt's more sophisticated elites--the few liberals exisitng there--stand to be crushed by the Islamists surrounding them, as Lee Smith argues.itzik basmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04819878847328122792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1639046296081313228.post-19643846230262968032011-01-31T10:44:09.432-08:002011-01-31T10:44:09.432-08:00Depressing but a likely out come. "Might make...Depressing but a likely out come. "Might makes right" is an old western tradition. Liberalism is only a more successful way to make societies wealthier. Given that Egypt does not really have any enemies perhaps its more sophisicated elites will have the opportunity to show its population the benefits of peace and tolerance within and without its borders.Larry Jefferyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05793936970423941677noreply@blogger.com