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Reader comment on item: Are Egypt's Islamists Heading for a Fall?

Submitted by JACQUES HADIDA (United States), Feb 17, 2012 at 15:59

Reading your article about Egypt's situation made me wonder if at one time a military run country has ever been successful.

We have seen Argentina and Chile, we are seeing Myanmar. We now have an almost Pakistan. Are these people better off?

Is it not time soldiers understand that they are not politicians? Having the power is one thing, running a country is another.And yet, greed for more power always takes over.

Sadly however, countries are run by lawyers instead of economists, only because lawyers are good at how to fool people, thinking they know all the rules

JACQUES HADIDA

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	Title	Commenter	Date	Thread
7	The price of food in Egypt went up by 8.2% since between 1/2012 and 12/12012 and then 2.7% in 1/2013 [228 words]	dhimmi no more	Feb 13, 2013 16:56	203464
1	That's Great News [34 words]	Dave	Feb 11, 2013 08:36	203399
	Egypt's future [75 words]	promesa	Feb 23, 2012 01:03	193576
3	Act Now [780 words]	Fred Baehr	Feb 17, 2012 16:43	193433
	MILTARY IN POWER [100 words]	JACQUES HADIDA	Feb 17, 2012 15:59	193430
	An interesting thought [178 words]	Peter Herz	Feb 18, 2012 09:33	193430
4	Who cares about the population. [97 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	batya dagan	Feb 4, 2012 16:41	193059
2	Q's [30 words]	infosifter	Feb 4, 2012 14:53	193055

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