The Tragedy of Egypt

Due to a glitch, that is, we were a bit late with our payments, we suddenly found our internet service cut off today, along with about half of my favorite TV channels.  So, I remembered that my son’s phone had internet, which burns me a little bit that our 8 year old is more up to date techwise than I am, but we needed to charge his phone and so my wife went out to the nearest tobacconist to do that and they said sure but you still won’t get the internet switched on till midnight.  Fortunately, we are one hour east of Greenwich Mean Time, so I am able to fulfill my mission of a blog a day without even cheating and fiddling with the dates and we’ve connected his phone to his notebook so I can at least type this on a computer rather than on the phone as I’d feared but I hate this keyboard, the cursor jumps around and words and entire paragrahs disappear for instance I had already written what I am about to write.

Their days of glory are long gone

The worst thing was I was reduced to getting my news from CNN and it made me realize how spoiled I am with the internet.  I was watching a Robert Gibbs press conference in slack  jawed amazement at the incredible, mind boggling stupidity of American journalists who seemed to think that President Obama owed it to them to be there personally, and that he could somehow solve the crisis in Egypt with a couple of phone calls.

Actually, I think Obama is taking the appropriate stands which is  we’ll wait and see. They seem to forget that Egypt is one of those 200 or so nations around the world of which Barack Obama is not President.

The great tragedy of Egypt is that whoever takes power after this the country is never going to be rich. They don’t have oil, they don’t have coal, they don’t have gold or diamonds, they don’t have very good farm land. What they do have are 80 million people they can’t feed. Tourism is nice, but it’s not nearly enough.