This is a long overdue blog post. I’ve been keeping an eye out on what is happening in the Middle East. First it was Tunisia, now is Egypt’s turn. It almost seem like a stack of domino blocks toppling the American puppet governments.
I fully support the voice of the people and I am always slightly buzzed when I hear people gather together and speak with one voice. It’s true that fear is a way to keep people in place. If you exert enough fear, you can keep a population in place. Such was the way of Mohsin Mubarak for three decades. There will always come a time when the people decide ‘enough is enough’.
Change should always come from within and not from with-out. George.W.Bush attacked Iraq in the name of ‘freedom’, I always wonder if Saddam Hussein was not hamstrung by the Americans, would Iraq now have the people strength to topple the dictator. Perhaps the loss of so many (innocent) life can be avoided.
Politics should not be about fear. The polis should follow the leader for his love for the population and not his love for power.