eGypped

eGypped.

The politically incorrect event of being ripped off in the Internet. It is still politically incorrect even though President Sarkozy has decided to expel many of the Roma population that lives in France. Usually an expulsion confers upon the expulsee the status of dirt leaving them open to all manner of insult. Never mind that the Roma have withstood insult in France and elsewhere in Europe for many years now and no one seems to care.

Egypt.

The latest country in the Middle East to experience political turbulence. Mubarak is considered, by many, to be a despot and crowds of angry protesters have defied the government and participated in public protests.

Who knows what will happen? Will Mubarak prevail and continue to be an American ally and a friend to Israel or will ElBaradei take over and change the status quo?

The larger question is whether the trifecta of unrest that has gone from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen will spread and cause a major change in the governments of the region.

What will we do? We support dictatorships throughout the area because they serve our stated national interest (and those of the corporations doing business there...)

We turn a blind eye to the injustice and deprivation of human rights that runs rampant in these insular societies.

We are afraid that we will lose the upper hand in our business dealings and that maybe these governments will go from being totalitarian to being theocratic.

Which is worse...opression or Islam? Clearly we have made our decision over the years.

We support Saudi Arabia, for example, when it has been shown time and again that they seem to lack the respect for basic human rights that we demand from ourselves and other nations.

Why do we tolerate the hypocrisy? Because they have the oil.

Period.

We tolerate it in China because they have cheap goods and own half of the US anyway.

We tolerate the hypocrisy whenever and wherever we have a selfish need.

Where is our morality? Where are our principles? Where are the basic beliefs that the Founders put their lives on the line for?

What is wrong with us?

So... eGypped or Egypt. Either way someone is getting hosed.

I wonder who...?