Egypt And The Whole Nine Yards

Happy Monday, all. I trust everyone is well.

Today I want to talk about the recent events in Egypt, but before I say anything about it,I want you all to know I didn't really follow it till it came on the news. I didn't know that the ousted leader Hosni had been in power over thirty years. He didn't show signs of being a dictator like Saddam Hussein or a Kim Jong ill. My understanding of it was that most country's got along with him and he was an Allie.

I guess the only way to know perhaps is by looking at it this way. For what ever the reason, I guess Egyptians wanted free and clear elections and the chance to get some one new as president.America has it, England every so often has the Prime Minister step down for some one new and I can only speak as an American, but I like the fact that every four years we can vote for a new President. I think all country's do. Those that have the right.

But here's the thing, and this might explain a little bit of the Iraq situation.

I think when you have some one who has been in power for as long as the Egyptian president has, people get used to it. They do. Now, some of these people may have the same belief as a Hussein or a Jong ill or perhaps even Castro and that if the are overthrown, they feel like they have to retaliate, if for any reason to get it back the way it was.

If you can, picture it this way, now granted this WOULD NEVER happen in America, but think about it: An American president whose eight years are up ( for those who might be reading this that do not know the structure of the American Presidency, they can only have two four year terms.) and he doesn't want to leave. If he was to stay as president for even a month, Americans will be fighting for their right to have it back the way it was with only two terms. Now, Granted that would never happen here, but I am just using it as an example.

Some people like change, other's don't. Some people want change while other's don't.

It's easy for me to say this because I was born in America and have lived in America all my life, but I like how our election process works. We get to have someone new every now and than, regardless of weather its the president or different people in Congress or the senate.

Had I had been born in another country and lived there, hard to say because it didn't happen that way, but for sake of argument, maybe I would have agreed with that country's policies, perhaps I wouldn't have. Hard to say.

I do pray for peace with the whole situation and I am happy to an extent that Egypt might have the change to have a free and clear election. I just hope that who ever the Egyptian president is that not only does he remember how he got there, but also to treat his people fairly.

I don't think, regardless of now nice or not he was with other country's that Hosni was all that fair. If he was, he wouldn't over stayed his welcome by thirty years.