Tag: Nasser

Tonight We are ALL Egyptians 20110202 (Ich bin ein Berliner)

I know that many, many featured writers and other contributors have written about this subject, but I think that I have a bit of a different take on this subject than most have.  I know that there are real, difficult, important, and political implications in this entire affair.  I know that the ravers on the right (interesting, Glenn Beck was not on air tonight) and on the left have their version of things.

My outlook on the entire subject is from the perspective of the people who are either participating or affected by what looks like to be the beginning of a revolution proper in Egypt.  A revolution that is fueled by many factors, including generations of oppression, a lousy economy (the wealth difference betwixt the top and everyone else is much worse there than in the United States), suppression of opinion, and the dreaded “knock at the door in the wee hours” are but a few.  Please bear with me for a few moments.