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People of good will throughout the world share the Egyptian people's happiness with Hosni Mubarak's representation that he wouldn't seek reelection in this September elections. Nevertheless, people throughout the world watch the current violence unfolding in Egypt several people being killed and six hundred plus hurt with great sadness!
Watching the events unfold in Egypt in Tahrir Square, it makes one think there has to be a better way for the people of Egypt to obtain their freedom. Wisdom seems to call for the following assessments about Egypt. The public of Egypt for now should conclude they achieved a great success with Mubarak's announcement this is his last term. The anti-Mubarak protestors should now back down, don't physically confront the proMubarak protestors the price is too high with that course in terms of physical harm. We know the Egyptian people want Mubarak to leave immediately because he was an oppressive dictator who left his country impoverished and they want to be done with the badness he brings on the country, but he has chosen not to leave and resorting to violence does not show a clear path to success.
Anti-Mubarak leaders have to stop calling Egyptian people to continue to protest until Mubarak steps down, this calling Egyptians to patriotism, to be idealistic to follow all the good feelings that will be realized by protesting is foolishness. Anti-Mubarak leaders need to be calling people to act with wisdom and back down from physical confrontation now, go back to your communities and work to support good political leaders that will run for the presidency in the upcoming elections. Anti-Mubarak leaders need to be calling the Egyptian people to act with wisdom and what is really wise and important is not that Mubarak leave immediately rather that the upcoming elections are fair, that in the remaining months of his tenure Mubarak and his allies don't loot the country so the Anti-Mubarak public should work through the legal system to insure that such doesn't take place I am sure that with Mubarak's short tenure there will be some Egyptian judges that will have the virtue to stop the looting. To insure the elections are fair the Anti-Mubarak leaders should lobby the international community to send international election watchdog groups to monitor the elections to make sure their fair, I am sure the U.S. government would be receptive to such lobbying and with US foreign aid dollars they obviously have significant leverage to bring this about. What is wise is that Anti-Mubarak leaders work to stop Mubarak's parliament from enacting bad legislation in their waning months, again, work through the courts to have the current parliament found to be illegitimate due to the fact that the elections which put them into office were unfair.
Anti-Mubarak leaders instead of trying to use direct physical confrontation to get Mubarak to step down be wise and use the force of the ensuing political campaign to achieve that end. Good Egyptian candidates should be campaigning how they are going to move Egypt forward not spend their term in office seeking revenge against government officials but they should be representing that the top government officials responsible for the political crimes that transpired over the last thirty years will be brought to justice as a deterrent against future leaders committing like political crimes (the same development that occurred in Iraq along these lines should happen in Egypt), the bottom line is Mubarak and his Vice President the head of the Egyptian Intelligence services should hang from a rope for the blood on their hands. If Mubarak has any sense at all he will be making arrangements as quickly as he can to leave Egypt seeking permanent asylum in a foreign country to escape Egypt's criminal justice system. Anti-Mubarak leaders spare your peoples' blood call them to back down now and go home to their communities and be patient freedom and goodness will come to Egypt it will just take time to work out the path!
Watching the events unfold in Egypt in Tahrir Square, it makes one think there has to be a better way for the people of Egypt to obtain their freedom. Wisdom seems to call for the following assessments about Egypt. The public of Egypt for now should conclude they achieved a great success with Mubarak's announcement this is his last term. The anti-Mubarak protestors should now back down, don't physically confront the proMubarak protestors the price is too high with that course in terms of physical harm. We know the Egyptian people want Mubarak to leave immediately because he was an oppressive dictator who left his country impoverished and they want to be done with the badness he brings on the country, but he has chosen not to leave and resorting to violence does not show a clear path to success.
Anti-Mubarak leaders have to stop calling Egyptian people to continue to protest until Mubarak steps down, this calling Egyptians to patriotism, to be idealistic to follow all the good feelings that will be realized by protesting is foolishness. Anti-Mubarak leaders need to be calling people to act with wisdom and back down from physical confrontation now, go back to your communities and work to support good political leaders that will run for the presidency in the upcoming elections. Anti-Mubarak leaders need to be calling the Egyptian people to act with wisdom and what is really wise and important is not that Mubarak leave immediately rather that the upcoming elections are fair, that in the remaining months of his tenure Mubarak and his allies don't loot the country so the Anti-Mubarak public should work through the legal system to insure that such doesn't take place I am sure that with Mubarak's short tenure there will be some Egyptian judges that will have the virtue to stop the looting. To insure the elections are fair the Anti-Mubarak leaders should lobby the international community to send international election watchdog groups to monitor the elections to make sure their fair, I am sure the U.S. government would be receptive to such lobbying and with US foreign aid dollars they obviously have significant leverage to bring this about. What is wise is that Anti-Mubarak leaders work to stop Mubarak's parliament from enacting bad legislation in their waning months, again, work through the courts to have the current parliament found to be illegitimate due to the fact that the elections which put them into office were unfair.
Anti-Mubarak leaders instead of trying to use direct physical confrontation to get Mubarak to step down be wise and use the force of the ensuing political campaign to achieve that end. Good Egyptian candidates should be campaigning how they are going to move Egypt forward not spend their term in office seeking revenge against government officials but they should be representing that the top government officials responsible for the political crimes that transpired over the last thirty years will be brought to justice as a deterrent against future leaders committing like political crimes (the same development that occurred in Iraq along these lines should happen in Egypt), the bottom line is Mubarak and his Vice President the head of the Egyptian Intelligence services should hang from a rope for the blood on their hands. If Mubarak has any sense at all he will be making arrangements as quickly as he can to leave Egypt seeking permanent asylum in a foreign country to escape Egypt's criminal justice system. Anti-Mubarak leaders spare your peoples' blood call them to back down now and go home to their communities and be patient freedom and goodness will come to Egypt it will just take time to work out the path!