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Well the situation in Egypt seems to be getting better and better by the day...
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A British cameraman working for Sky News was shot and killed during those attacks.
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It's fucked up. Can't root for either side. I want the military to impose some order and keep the government secular, but I don't think massacring the Islamists is going to help matters.
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Agreed.
At least Egypt is a homogeneous country which means it probably won't descend into a sectarian civil war *knock on wood* like Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. I wonder how the White House will react to this. U.S. media is turning against the military so there may be even stronger calls for us to cut ties. However, the geopolitical advantage of allying with Egypt may still be too much Quote:
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From the beginning of the uprising in Egypt, I could not figure out how
the US could decide who to support. I was surprised when Obama first came out early on saying Mubarik should resign. Now, a couple of years later he is in the same situation, and doesn't seem to have a good reason for supporting one side or the other. His TV announcement a few minutes ago seemed pretty "vanilla". "Stop the fighting" is about all he could convey. For now, it seems to me the US position can only be to do nothing different. By that I mean, the $1B in foreign aide will continue because to discontinue it would probably have far reaching effects later when a new government is formed. I suspect the US will sit back and wait to see how things work out, rather than trying to enter the fray on one side or the other. |
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If you did not learn about General Sisi, then you did not yet understand other wild cards in Egypt. Many players are at that poker table. Each with completely different ideas about what is democracy, if democracy really works, and what kind of power they crave. General Sisi was even educated in Pennsylvania. One of the first things he did was purge the Army of supporters of the previous supreme commander. We may now be seeing why he did that. |
You are seriously misusing the term "racism".
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It sounded like he meant religious bigotry; however, he could mean generalized racial bigotry as I've heard of darker complexioned inhabitants of the region being referred to as "sand ni**ers." Perhaps he has something more specific in mind.
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A white skinned and black skinned man can be of similar race. And still racism says they are different. Racism (as so many use the term) foolishly says two white men with major race differences are same. Again, judging only based upon first impressions rather than first learning the facts (ie DNA analysis). Racism is any judgement based upon first impressions. Israel is an example. For example learn how they treat Eritrean refugees and other non-Jews from torture camps on Israel's border. Hate based upon religion is only another example of racism. Democracies have no business associating religion with government. A democracy cannot exist when government and religion are same. Democracy demands that the emotional concept called religion be separate from the pragmatic concept called government. Unfortunately, the US government does not make that distinction when discussing democracies elsewhere. |
Racism is about race. The term you are seeking is "prejudice".
It will not serve you to expand the definition of racism for your own personal purposes. |
"Bigotry" works well too.
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Isn't bigotry acting on prejudice?
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