RE: New Egyptian constitution may seek to ban all religious parties from politics
August 19, 2013 at 6:13 pm
(August 19, 2013 at 5:21 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Couldn't they have a centuries long ramadan?
I mean.... it's been over a month since I hear anything about Egypt.... and now this...
It's good news...
It's a step in the right direction...
It's a difficult step... But I guess it has a few crutches from the EU and the US...
Egypt was bordering on being being a failed state unable to feed itself even under Mubarak, with a highly tense peace kept amongst a large, diseffected, unemployed or underemployed populus only through government subsidized food import programs, and the government was edging ever closer to insolvency. I can't imagine the finances of Egypt would have improved since the fall of Mubarak. The massacre of the protesters will knock the crutch out from major US and EU support.
Egypt will likely soon go bankrupt paying for imports of food to keep the peace. What will the military do then?
