The
two biggest problems Egypt is facing right now are political and economical.
Politically there is currently no secure government, which means there is no
control over its people or the land. Without a government there cannot be
any politics, which goes hand in hand with economics. Without a government
there is no possible way to control or even have any trading or buying going on
amongst Egypt and other participating nations. Without any set government other
nations hesitate to become involved with any situation with Egypt, and the ones
that do get involved have motives as to why they want to trade, for example
control over the Suez canal or other resources that would be helpful to them.
As of right now the United States is
withholding any military or any aid for that matter, from Egypt. We are in a
“damned if you do, and damned if you don’t” situation right now. The United
States has to be very careful with how they handle this issue, because it could
easily blow up in our face. With the
presidential election not too far away (a year and a half to be exact) our
current president would probably like to leave his rein in doing something
positive, that will down in history in a good way, as being something he was
able to accomplish while in office. Seeing that all our presidents are known
for something, if he does aid or not aid Egypt it could leave the next
president cleaning up a huge mess. I think as of now we should not get involved
until all options have been exhausted and all ideas have been thought through.
The western world has looked at
Egypt or any Middle Eastern country for that matter as uncivilized, uneducated,
and prideful people. They look upon them as a very unstable government to get
involved with, partially because of all that has happened after September 11th
attacks on the United States. Its very hard to become involved with such a
unstable, risky nation/area, not knowing what the outcome would be. The news we
see on TV obviously doesn’t show both sides of the story, in fact a lot of
information is withheld from the people of the United States, to protect and
government decisions or involvement.
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