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Egypt: Three Possible Outcomes

January 29, 2011 - 3:29 pm - by Barry Rubin
Fred
2011-01-30 12:08:46

Egypt has a huge “peasant” population, some would even aspire to be peasants – those living in and from garbage dumps for example.

Once roused, they will not quiet down easily. Democracy in such a society is a near impossibility, it’s generations in the future.

The likely scenario a year from now is Islamic_Paradise-on-the-Nile.