Reply #18: Maybe if you lived under Mbarak's iron, oppressive rule

[sabrina 1]

you would feel differently. Egypt is a great place for tourists, with the 'locals' under control, but living there is an entirely different story.

What makes you think it will be 'extremists' who take over? They want a real democracy, as do the people of Tunisia and elsewhere, as they did in Latin America.

The truth is people around the world have suffered greatly under the U.S. supported brutal and corrupt regimes where the Global Capitalist leaders sell out their country's resources while impoverishing their own people, and enriching themselves.

Nothing has contributed more to what we view as 'extremism' than this unfair system where people are kept down and the Colonialists invade and steal their resources.

For the people there, I hope they finally succeed and then I hope they get the democracy they want, which if it succeeds will reduce extremism far more effectively than all of our torture and bombs which only serves to increase it.