# Reviving the Mummies in Egypt **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 1, 2013, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062 "2013-08-01T08:01:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![David\_H\_Singanas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@David\_H\_Singanas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_H_Singanas)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/1 "2013-08-01T08:01:42Z")
Now the Defense Ministry has repeatedly asked our Defense Department for “more rhetorical support” for a new set of personalities to run the government. Now Mr. Hagel has to be mum because he knows the President does not want to offend the party of the elected government. [N.Y.TIMES, 7-3-13] And what about our own State Department? Mr. Kerry cannot supply any constitutional rhetoric because he urgently needs dual statehood in Palestine. (Getting Israel to recognise Palestinian borders may be the ticket to a 2016 presidential nomination.) We know the Ministry of Defense is stalling because they do not want to deal with the Brotherhood’s instituted state religion. Britain and France have made a lot of history in Egypt. Where is their rhetoric for constitutional reform? The most they can do is send a low key European Union diplomat who visited all the talking heads without focusing on fundamental principles. Who would know more about constitutional law and division of powers than Federal Germany? Yet the Germans have sent no panel of jurists to recommend changes in the Islamist Constitution. (The first step is to AMEND the Constitution, not call an election for a new set of appointed leaders.) I met a former staffer of the German embassy of Egypt. We had lunch after church in Houston. She insisted to me that “the Brotherhood does not want an Islamist state but a state influenced by Islam.” Emendation of the Morsi constitution is the way to go, and a “Constitutional Convention” should advise Mr. Morsi to take or leave it …after the referendum. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/2 "2013-08-01T08:18:41Z")
…so the great debate here is what, exactly? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/3 "2013-08-01T08:49:22Z")
I wanted more any Mummies. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/4 "2013-08-01T10:36:22Z")
> [@David\_H\_Singanas](#): > > [N.Y.TIMES, 7-3-13] You may want to catch up on your reading. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/5 "2013-08-01T13:53:44Z")
I think the point is- we revive an army of mummies & use them to enforce order. Come one- ancient Egypt had to be a much more stable society than now. They’d know how to get it done! Nothing could possibly go wrong with that! _starts writing the screenplay_ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/6 "2013-08-01T14:08:19Z")
Why do we think it matters what the U.S. or France or the U.K. says to Egypt right now? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/7 "2013-08-01T14:23:16Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Why do we think it matters what the U.S. or France or the U.K. says to Egypt right now? As far as I can tell, his question is “Can’t _someone else_ do it?” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/8 "2013-08-01T15:07:33Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Why do we think it matters what the U.S. or France or the U.K. says to Egypt right now? Becau$e. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/9 "2013-08-01T15:11:58Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Becau$e. That didn’t stop the military from forcing Morsi out, did it? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/10 "2013-08-01T15:32:24Z")
This debate is imhotepid. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/11 "2013-08-01T16:31:54Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That didn’t stop the military from forcing Morsi out, did it? They always got our aid/bribes anyway, this just cuts out the middleman. ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/12 "2013-08-01T22:17:49Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > This debate is imhotepid. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/13 "2013-08-01T22:21:21Z")
Can green lasers be used to revive mummies? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reviving-the-mummies-in-egypt/665062/14 "2013-08-01T22:25:35Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > Nice. Thanks. Strangely, [this somewhat more elaborate joke](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16527890&postcount=16) in a thread about the sex lives of scientists didn’t even get noticed.