La Vache Qui Rit
Here's a little chestnut I missed in my reader from Robert Fisk's feed:
"To admit that Egypt can't even open its sovereign border without permission from Washington tells you all you need to know about the powerlessness of the satraps that run the Middle East for us."
and...
"The true disgrace of Egypt, however, is not in its response to the slaughter in Gaza. It is the corruption that has become embedded in an Egyptian society where the idea of service ? health, education, genuine security for ordinary people ? has simply ceased to exist. It's a land where the first duty of the police is to protect the regime, where protesters are beaten up by the security police, where young women objecting to Mubarak's endless regime ? likely to be passed on caliph-like to his son Gamal, whatever we may be told ? are sexually molested by plain-clothes agents, where prisoners in the Tora-Tora complex are forced to rape each other by their guards." [Robert Fisk for the Independent]
I thoroughly urge you to read the entire (short) piece. I found it very interesting.
posted by LX at 6:51 PM
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