You just seen a crowd in egypt move cautiously!
and grand it was.Would this be consider as evolution within ethics?
A tyrant's exit. A nation's joy
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Robert Fisk: They sang. They laughed. They cried. Mubarak was no more
Everyone suddenly burst out singing.
And laughing, and crying, and shouting and praying, kneeling on the road and kissing the filthy tarmac right in front of me, and dancing and praising God for ridding them of Hosni Mubarak – a generous moment, for it was their courage rather than divine intervention which rid Egypt of its dictator – and weeping tears which splashed down their clothes. It was as if every man and woman had just got married, as if joy could smother the decades of dictatorship and pain and repression and humiliation and blood. Forever, it will be known as the Egyptian Revolution of 25 January – the day the rising began – and it will be forever the story of a risen people. Talk of a historic day somehow took the edge off what last night's victory really means for Egyptians. Through sheer willpower, through courage in the face of Mubarak's hateful state security police, through the realisation - yes - that sometimes you have to struggle to overthrow a dictator with more than words and facebooks, through the very act of fighting with fists and stones against cops with stun guns and tear gas and live bullets, they achieved the impossible: the end - they must plead with their God that it is permanent -- of almost 60 years of autocracy and repression, 30 of them Mubarak's. Arabs, maligned, cursed, racially abused in the West, treated as backward and uneducated by many of the Israelis who wanted to maintain Mubarak's often savage rule, had stood up, abandoned their fear, and tossed away the man whom the West loved as a 'moderate' leader who would do their bidding at the price of $1.5 billion a year. It's not only east Europeans who can stand up to brutality.........
Quote:.....So the Egyptian Revolution lay in the hands of the country's army last night as a series of confused and contradictory statements from the military indicated that Egypt's field marshals, generals and brigadiers were competing for power in the ruins of Mubarak's regime. Israel, according to several prominent Cairo military families, was trying to persuade Washington to promote their favourite Egyptian - former intelligence 'capo' and vice president Omar Suleiman - to the presidency, while Field Marshal Tantawi, the defence minister, wanted his chief of staff, General Sami Anan, to run the country. ....
Quote:...Analysts talk about a 'network' of generals within the regime, although it is more like a cobweb, a series of competing senior officers whose own personal wealth and jealously guarded privileges were earned by serving the regime whose 83-year old leader now appears as demented as he does senile. The health of the president and the activities of the millions of pro-democracy protesters across Egypt are thus now less important than the vicious infighting within the army.
Quote:But Arab verse does not win revolutions, and every Egyptian knew yesterday that the initiative lay no more with the demonstrators than with the remote, slightly demented figure of the 83-year-old ex-dictator. For the future body politic of Egypt lies with up to a hundred officers, their old fidelity to Mubarak -- sorely tested by the old man's appalling speech on Thursday night, let alone the revolution on the streets -- has now been totally abandoned. A military communiqué yesterday morning -- read, rather oddly, by a civilian state television anchorman -- called for "free and fair elections", adding that Egyptian armed forces were "committed to the demands of the people" who should "resume a normal way of life." Translated into civilian-speak, this means that the revolutionaries should pack up while a coterie of generals divide up the ministries of a new government. In some countries, this is called a 'coup d'etat'. ...
Quote:As for Omar Sulieman, his own post-Mubarak speech on Thursday night was almost as childish as the president's. He told the demonstrators to go home - treating them, in the words of one protester, like sheep - and duly blamed "television stations and radios" for violence on the streets, an idea as preposterous as Mubarak's claim - for the umpteenth time -- that "foreign hands" were behind the revolution. His ambitions for the presidency may have also ended, another old man who thought he could close down the revolution with false promises.
Perhaps the shadow of the army is too dark an image to invoke in the aftermath of so monumental a revolution in Egypt. Siegfried Sassoon's joy on the day of the 1918 Armistice, the end of the First World War - when everyone also suddenly burst out singing - was genuine and deserved. Yet that peace led to further immense suffering. And the Egyptians who have fought for their future in the streets of their nation over the past three weeks will have to preserve their revolution from internal as well as external enemies if they are to achieve a real democracy. The army has decided to protect the people. But who will curb the power of the army?
