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There are protesters in Egypt, but do we really have any right to voice our opinion?

As far as I can tell the protests are about corruption, poverty and other issues?  It took me a few days after the protest began to learn the causes, along with many journalists.

So now that the president said that he wouldn’t rerun (after 30 years as president) and that changes would be made to the process, why are people still out in the streets protesting, disrupting their fragile economy basically making themselves weaker?

Watching TV, I’ve seen a few hundred protesters at certain location, but I know that there are thousands from what the journalist say.

But why continue?  It seems like they won, the looting should stop and the businesses and employment that feed families should be able to re-start trying to get life back on track again…

Since the protests are still continuing, kids aren’t getting feed, and families are suffering!  So this has now enabled a backlash from the people against the protesters.  This backlash group called “Mubarak supporters” are said to be larger that the protest groups, and they aren’t happy.  So now the groups are battling each other.

To me, it seems like the protest created change and that enough is enough… unless they don’t really want a democracy and are being fueled by religious zealots?  Perhaps this is an attempt to overthrow the entire democratic process, perhaps setting up a government that is more similar to the Iranian government?

I admit, I don’t know who the backers of what is really going on over there are, but I don’t think our government shouldn’t be voicing our opinion, and telling the egyptian authorities what to do.  It’s their country and based on the rise of the “Mubarak supporters”, maybe we should measure twice and cut once before making demands of an ally?

Afterall, I don’t hear the French or German governments telling the Egyptians how to think and what to do.  Perhaps this is the reason that we Americans are often viewed as being arrogant?  I think we need to butt out and realize that what is happening is really none of our business, and that by our stepping in, both side will hate us in the end.

I find it ironic, that when Iran had demonstrators and protesters, we sat back and clammed up, but for an Ally, we had to put our two cents in…

I don’t know what going to happen, and I wish the Egyptian people the very best!  The thing is they are going to come to a conclusion without us putting demands on the egyptian government or people.

What do you think?  If you were an ally would you appreciate that the US is on the other side?  Wouldn’t that make you upset?

-MR

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