I’ve just published two foreign policy-related posts at Outside the Beltway:
The Tiger or the Tiger: What’s Ahead for Egypt?
Egypt’s Grim Economics
In the first post I make the observation that the only two likely outcomes in Egypt are for the effective return of Mubarak’s regime or another incompetent Islamist government.
In the second post I sketch the economic underpinnings of Egypt’s problems.
With these two posts, brick by brick, I’m assembling a case that has two points. First, there is no do-over. That’s fatuous. The likelihood of an outcome that is good either for the U. S. or Egypt is quite low and the U. S. is in a lose-lose situation there.
Secondly, Egypt’s problems are basic. There’s no short term solution.
I believe that, sadly, our best course of action in Egypt is studied neutrality. We gain practically nothing by anything else.
Agreed. Not much we can do about or for Egypt, or Syria for that matter. They need to work some stuff out for themselves. Just FTR i dont see a return to a Mubarak type regime as especially effective either. The army is a big part of their economic problem.
Steve