I’m putting this in the Pit because I expect to be mocked.
I don’t think Hosni Mubarak is an illegitimate ruler because he’s an anti-democratic dictator. I think Hosni Mubarak is an illegitimate ruler because he’s propped up by a foreign democracy. And democracy, as I have said elsewhere, is inevitably stupid.
Therefore, I think it’s time the USA changed its policy. Instead of hypocritically protecting democracy here in the USA while propping up dictators in places like Egypt, we should let Egypt experiment with democracy & bring Hosni Mubarak here. I wouldn’t worry too much about Egypt staying democratic; it will likely end up with some quasi-Bonapartist military ruler soon enough. But finally the USA can have the dictator of its dreams, the dictator it deserves.
Please rule us, Hosni Mubarak, we love you & need you!
Strikes me as Senator material – very old, from the old money, keeps getting re-elected for past 30 years, reactionary (as opposed to proactive), aware of corru… pardon, pork dynamics.
So here’s what I was told (as a true story): some years ago, through some idealistic study-abroad program, an Israeli & a (muslim) Palestinian are both studying at a midwestern college somewhere. Rather than fly all the way back over some holiday or another, they accept an invitation to a local family’s house for dinner; they answer a bunch of well-intentioned but clueless questions, then the main course comes out: a lovely glazed ham. The Israeli looks at the ham, then looks at the Palestinian. The Palestinian looks at the Israeli, looks down at the ham, then looks back, and says: “Pass the chicken.”
Oh good lord. Can you imagine that jackass as a national leader? Isn’t his ego too large for Egypt already? I’d bet he’d last about two weeks before there was another revolution.
