Song Nile
Posted on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 12:15 am
Egypt’s Descent (National Review Online)
I’ve been alarmed by the latest polls. No, not from Iowa and New Hampshire,
although they’re unnerving enough. It’s the polls from Egypt. Foreign policy
has not played a part in the U.S. presidential campaign, mainly because we’re
so broke that the electorate seems minded to take the view that if government
is going to throw trillions of dollars down the toilet they’d rather it was an
Al Gore-compliant Kohler model in Des Moines or Poughkeepsie than an outhouse
in Waziristan. Alas, reality does not arrange its affairs quite so neatly, and
the world that is arising in the second decade of the 21st century is
increasingly inimical to American interests, and likely to prove even more
expensive to boot.
In that sense, Egypt is instructive. Even in the giddy live-from-Tahrir Square
heyday of the “Arab Spring” and “Facebook Revolution,” I was something of a
skeptic. Back in February, I chanced to be on Fox News with Megyn Kelly within
an hour or so of Mubarak’s resignation. Over on CNN, Anderson Cooper was
interviewing telegenic youthful idealists cooing about the flowering of a new
democratic Egypt. Back on Fox, sourpuss Steyn was telling Megyn that …
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