No Break to Write About the Riots in Egypt
The plan was to write about the situation in Egypt today, but shit really hit the fan there now, so I’m pretty much glued to the Al Jazeera English live stream and The Guardian’s live coverage of the Egypt protests, following the battles and developments. No way to write something now, since I’m not a reporter who can follow a situation and report on it at the same time. Plus that I’m not keen on reporting situations as they’re developing anyway, instead giving my opinions on the general issue, usually either while things are still in the planning stage or after events have already reached at least a preliminary conclusion.
All I have to say at the moment is that this truly is major. If these protests will succeed, the wave will sweep all through the Arab world, possibly reigniting tensions even in Iran. If they’ll fail, all that momentum will likely be lost and few more things will happen. Of course, the question in either case is what will happen afterwards and what will the consequences be for the entire world. Obviously, if these movements will result in fundamentalists, of any kind, gaining power, as the case has been in Palestine, we’d all be far worse off than now, so some sort of international force should be standing by to make sure that won’t happen. But that same international force should also support the anti-government protesters now, while also looking into reasonable solutions for a temporary government to avoid a power vacuum.
I’m getting back to following the developments now, as this has been hard enough to write while listening to the reports anyway. Perhaps the situation will sort itself out soon enough and I’ll be able to say more then… And, on an unrelated note, also manage to figure out what to do this month for Global Population Speak Out, of course, since that should be my main concern. But there are far too many good fights to fight in this world…
