Egypt

I recently returned from Egypt conducting an analysis for an independent agency. This agency provides consultative service for service sector development. Needless to say, the current political situation there is not favorable for development. As anyone must realize at this time, the economy, and hence the standard of living for the majority, which are poor, is declining. Tourism, a sizable portion of the Egpytian economy, is suffering considerably.

The current American Administration is, obviously, torn between promoting freedom and democracy on the one hand, and ensuring that radical, unfriendly regimes on the other, are not installed and hence subsequently allowed to institute that which they sought for so long to overcome; political illegitimacy. The "Admin" is not pressing too hard, at this time, despite weak protestations, against the military rulers since the military is stifling the "radical" Brotherhood; the Brotherhood that did, at one time, seek to impose Sharia law similar to that which The Taliban instituted in Afghanistan.

I found that, as is usually the case in these types of political uprisings, the youth are the ones driving the uprising. My analysis concludes that this will go on for some time and may spiral further down into cival war.