re: #27 EmmmieG

The question I’m thinking, I suppose, is whether a people’s history can be turned around, and how?

I would assume they’d need a system similar to what Attaturk set up in Turkey; a mandated secular state enforced by the military. I suspect that’s probably fairly unlikely. What would probably happen if Mubarak’s government folds is something similar to Lebanon which would probably result in civil war. The Islamists would love to kill off the Copts and start shipping weapons into Gaza for a proxy war with Israel from Gaza.
I’m not optimistic.